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THE  LIBRARY 
OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY 

OF  CALIFORNIA 

LOS  ANGELES 


Ex  Libris 

Katharine  F.  Richmond 

and 

Henry  C.  Fall 


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Haley, 
Piper, 

Neal    and 

Ricker 
Families 


OF    MAINE    AND 
NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 


X 


JOHN  W.  HAYLEY. 


^^^cU^i^/-l. 


Genealogical  Memoranda, 


RELATING   CHIEFLY  TO  THE 


Haley,  Piper,  Neal  and  Ricker 

FAMILIES 

Of  Mainf  and  New  Hampshire. 


COMPILED    BY 


REV.  JOHN  W.  HAYLEY,  D.  D., 

Author  of  "Alleged  Discrepancies  of  the  Bible,"  "The  Hereafter  of   Sin,"   &c. 


LOWELl,  MASS. 

Courier-Citizen  Co.,  Printers. 

1900. 


Copyright,    1899, 

BY 
JOHN    WILLIAM     HAYLEY. 


ALL,    BIGHTS    RESERVED. 


To  my  kindred — to  the  memory  of  the 
departed,  and  to  the  kind  consideration  of  the 
living — this  little  hook  is  respectfully  dedicated. 


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PREFATORY  REMARKS. 


The  reader  will  please  bear  in  mind  that  I  have  not  attempted 
a  complete  history  of  any  one  of  the  four  families  considered.  I 
have  merely  sought  to  bring  together,  and  arrange  in  some  intel- 
ligible manner,  such  genealogical  memoranda  concerning  each 
family  as  I  could  glean  from  any  and  every  accessible  source- 
It  will  be  noticed  that,  in  many  cases,  there  are  "  missing  links  " 
in  the  several  records.  I  may  be  asked,  "  Why  publish,  until  all 
these  gaps  are  filled  ?"  My  answer  is  that,  should  I  wait  until 
all  the  "  missing  links "  are  supplied,  the  book  would  never 
appear.  I  have  thought  it  better  to  give  to  my  kindred  the 
genealogical  items  and  data  now  in  my  possession  than  to  let  all 
together  pass  into  oblivion.  An  imperfect  record  may  be  better 
than  no  record  at  all,  as  it  seems  to  me. 

I  have  spared  neither  time,  labor,  nor  expense,  to  make  the 
genealogies  as  full  and  accurate  as  I  could.  That  there  are  mis- 
takes—I trust,  not  many — in  the  book,  I  cannot  doubt.  Those 
who  know  most  of  book-making  will  best  appreciate  the  impos- 
sibility of  attaining  perfect  accuracy,  and  will  judge  the  author's 
slips  and  mistakes  most  leniently.  No  book  absolutely  free  from 
typographical  or  other  errors,  was  ever  published. 

In  gathering  materials  for  the  various  genealogical  records, 
I  have  encountered  grave  difficulties  and  obstacles, — some  of 
which  are  the  total  or  partial  loss  of  ancient  records;  their 
meagcrness  ;  the  illegibility  of  the  hand-writing  ;  and  the  deface- 
ment of  the  MSS.,  by  blurs,  stains,  and  by  the  wear  and  tear  of 
time.  One  very  puzzling  circumstance  is  the  fact  that,  in  many 
instances,  there  were  living  at  the  same  time  several  persons 
bearing  precisely  the  same  name.  Vox  example,  some  half-dozen 
persons,  each  bearing  the  name  of  "Walter  Neal,"  were  cotem- 
poraries  for  a  time,  and  living  not  far  apart.  Nearly  the  same 
may  be  said  as  to  the  name  "  Joshua  Neal."  Often  it  becomes 
e.xtremcly    difficult,    if     not    impossible,    to    determine    which 


"Walter,"  or  "Samuel,"  or  "Joshua"  is  meant.  I  can  only  say 
that  I  have  tried  faithfully  to  discriminate,  but  very  likely  have 
occasionally  erred.  If  any  reader  shall  detect  errors,  and  will 
communicate  the  fact  to  me,  I  shall  be  very  grateful. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  I  have  generally,  though  not  invaria- 
bly, arranged  persons  in  the  order  of  generations.  In  some  cases 
where  I  was  in  possession  of  but  few  facts  concerning  the  children 
of  a  family,  I  have  named  them  in  connection  with  their  parents, 
instead  of  in  a  separate  division.  Probably  no  one  will  be  misled 
by  this  grouping  of  names. 

In  conclusion,  I  tender  my  very  hearty  thanks  to  all  the 
numerous  and  courteous  friends  and  correspondents  who,  in  any 
manner,  by  furnishing  facts  and  data,  or  otherwise,  have  aided 
me  in  the  prolonged  and  laborious  task  of  compiling  and  prepar- 
mg  this  book. 

JOHN  W.  HAYLEY. 

271  Gorham  St.,  Lowell,  Mass.,  Oct.,  1899. 


HALEY   FAMILY. 


There  is  a  tradition — I  know  not  how  well  founded — that 
the  Haley  or  Hayley  family  in  this  country  owe  their  origin  to 
three  brothers  who,  many  years  ago,  came  over  from  the  west  of 
England.  This  tradition,  if  I  mistake  not,  was  related  to  me, 
near  half  a  century  since,  by  a  very  aged  and  intelligent  member 
of  the  family. 

With  reference  to  the  spelling  of  the  name,  there  is  con- 
siderable diversity.  It  has  been  written  Haley,  Hailey,  Hayley, 
Haile,  Hally,  Hailey,  Hele,  and,  in  one  of  "York  Deeds,"  is 
spelled  Hallye!  It  may  be  that  Healy,  Heley,  and  Healey 
are  but  variations  of  the  original  name.  From  ancient  records  I 
have  gathered  that  a  very  common  form  of  old-time  spelling 
was  "Hayley."  The  poet,  William  Hayley,  Cowper's  friend, 
adopted  this  form  of  the  patronymic,  and  the  writer  hereby  con- 
fesses his  own  preference  for  this  form  of  the  family  name. 

The  derivation  of  the  name  is  variously  given  in  biographical 
dictionaries  and  by  other  genealogical  authorities.  Some  say 
that  Hayley  is  from  "hay''  and  "lea,"  as  noting  a  hay-field, — 
like  Hayvvard  from  "hay"  and  "ward."  Others  derive  the  name 
Haley  or  Hailey  from  "hail''  and  "y,"'thus  giving  the  name  a 
meteorological  allusion.  An  authority  states  that  "  Hailey  "  or 
"Hayley"  is  the  name  of  a  certain  "chapelry" — territory  per- 
taining to  a  chapel  —  in  O.xford  County,  I*2ngland.  If  I  mistake 
not,  a  town  in  England  is  named  "  Haileybury."  Under  the 
circumstances,  there  seems  considerable  latitude  for  one's  per- 
sonal preferences  as  to  both  the  spelling  and  the  derivation  of  the 
family  name. 

From  I'^airbairn  on  "  Crests  "  (revised  by  Fo.x-Davies),  we 
learn  that  the  crest  of  the  Ilaleys  of  London  and  Middlesex 
(Eng.)  is  "a  goat's  head  erased  arg.  gorged  with  a  chaplct  gu." 


That  of  the  family  in  Sussex;  "on  a  crescent  arg.  a  cross  patonce 
gu."  And  that  of  Hayley  of  Cleobury  Mortimer,  Shropshire,  is 
"a  crescent  arg.,  charged  with  a  cross  patt6e  gu."  This,  of 
course,  is  intelHgible  only  to  those  versed  in  heraldry. 

It  will  be  noted,  moreover,  that  Shropshire,  otherwise 
"  Salop,"  is  one  of  the  westernmost  counties  of  England,  and 
bordering  upon  Wales.  And  from  all  I  can  gather,  it  is  from 
the  Hayley  family  of  this  western  English  county  that  my 
ancestors  came. 

It  may  be  added  that,  though  there  are  many  Irish  families 
bearing  the  names  "  Haley  "  and  "  Healey,"  I  find  no  trace  of 
Irish  blood  in  the  family  to  which  I  have  the  honor  to  belong. 
In  an  examination  of  lists  comprising  many  hundred  names  of 
members  of  the  family,  I  have  found  not  one  instance  of  dis- 
tinctively Irish  names,  such  as  Patrick,  Michael,  Dennis,  Bridget, 
and  the  like.  This  circumstance  points  almost  indubitably  to 
the  non-Celtic  origin  of  the  family  under  consideration.  To 
which  we  add  that,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  at  which 
time  the  Haleys  made  their  appearance  on  our  shores,  Ireland 
was  not  as  yet  sending  emigrants  to  this  country.  Emigra- 
tion was  then  mainly  English. 

Although  our  field  of  view  is  chiefly  restricted  to  Maine  and 
New  Hampshire,  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  note  the  fact  that  John 
Haley,  then  resident  in  Hadley,  Mass.,  married  Mrs.  Ruth  Gay- 
lord  in  1 68 1.  It  seems  not  improbable  that  he  was  a  brother  or 
near  relative  of  the  Maine  pioneers  to  be  mentioned  later.  We 
are  also  told  that  in  1640  William  Haley  was  one  of  the  settlers 
of  the  town  of  Reading,  Mass. 

It  is  also  stated  that  there  were  Haleys  in  Boston,  in  Con- 
necticut, and  in  New  York  at  an  early  period  (see  at  end  of 
this  genealogy);  and  that  on  May  21,  1635,  "Matthew  Heley  " 
embarked  in  the  "Matthew"  of  London,  Richard  Goddard,  mas- 
ter, for  St.  Christophers,  West  Indies.  What  was  the  special 
attraction  in  this  and  the  following  instances  we  fail  to  see. 

It  is  a  matter  of  interest  to  add  that  Hotten,  in  his  "  Lists 
of  Emigrants  to  America,  1600-1700,"  alludes  to  the  burial  of 
"Anthony  Hayley,"  on  June  30,  1679,  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Michael's,  Barbadoes. 


The  same  author  credits  "Thomas  Haley,"  about  1680,  with 
the  possession  of  12  acres  of  land,  in  the  parish  of  Christ  Church, 
in  the  same  W.  I.  island. 

He  also  chronicles  the  fact  that  "Richard  Heylei,"  aged  22, 
was,  on  March  16,  1634,  licensed  to  sail  from  "  Mildred,  Hred- 
strete,"  to  New  P2ngland,  in  the  "  Chrystian,"  with  W^hite  as 
Master. 

(It  might  be  queried  how,  if  at  all,  this  Richard  was  related 
to  Andrew  and  Thomas  of  Maine,  to  be  spoken  of  later  on. 
Could  he  have  been  their  father  .') 

Also,  that  "Ellen  Haly,"  aged  155,  was  listed  to  sail  in  the 
""Primrose,"  from  Gravesend  for  Virginia,  on  July  27,  1635. 

In  the  "  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Genealogical  Register,"  Vol.  27,  pp. 
138-9,  a  large  number  of  persons  bearing  the  name  of  "  Heley" 
are  mentioned.  Also,  Savage,  in  his  "  Genealogical  Dictionary," 
gives  a  large  list  of  "  Healeys," — the  variant  forms,  "Hale," 
*'  Heale,"  and  "  Hele,"  being  occasionally  found  in  the  records. 

And  Mr.  P'armer,  in  his  "Genealogical  Register,''  p.  140, 
enumerates  the  following  persons  : 

Thomas  Ilealey,  Cambridge,  1635. 

William  Healey, 'Cambridge,  1645. 

He  gives  the  latter's  children  as  follows:  Hannah,  ICliza- 
beth,  Sarah,  William,  Grace,  Nathaniel,  Martha,  Samuel,  Paul, 
and  Mary  —  ten  in  number. 

It  may  be  queried  whether  the  latter  William  was  not  the 
Reading  settler  above  referred  to.  However  interesting  it  might 
be,  it  would  lead  us  too  far  afield  to  attempt  to  answer  the 
various  questions  which  naturally  arise.  I'^or,  as  we  do  not  pro- 
pose to  write  a  history  of  the  entire  family,  but  merely  to  include 
a  special  branch  or  two  of  it,  we  must  not  delay. 

Just  here  it  is  proper  to  say  that  we  have  derivetl  consitler- 
able  aid  from  Ridlon's  "  Families  and  Settlements  of  Saco 
Valley,"  Portland,  1895.  This  book  contains  so  much  of  good 
material  that  it  ought  to  have  been  made  a  much  better  book. 
By  severe  condcn.sation,  by  greater  care  in  the  verification  of 
facts  and  dates,  by  more  pains  expended  in  tracing  the  relation- 
ship between  different  mem!)ers  and  branches  of  the  family,  and 


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by  a  scrupulous  adjustment  of  the  chronjology  of  events,  the  real 
value  of  the  book  might  have  been  vastly  increased. 

We  have  also  obtained  information  of  importance  from 
various  old  records  at  Kittery,  Wells,  Alfred,  and  other  places  ;. 
from  Folsom's  History  of  Saco,  from  Wheeler's  History  of 
Brunswick  and  Topsham,  from  Bourne's  History  of  Wells,  from 
Willis'  History  of  Portland,  from  Mrs.  E.  C.  Tooker  of  New- 
York,  historian  of  the  Haley  family  ;  and  from  the  records  left 
by  the  late  Samuel  Gordon  Haley  of  East  Andover,  N.  H.,  who, 
by  the  way,  was  a  classmate  of  the  writer  at  Dartmouth  College^ 
i860.  These  carefully  prepared  records  are  now  in  the  archives 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historic  Genealogical  Society  in  Boston. 

In  a  word,-  no  available  source  of  information  relative  to  the 
genealogy  of  the  Haley  family  has  been  neglected.  The  begin- 
nings of  the  family  in  northern  New  England,  seem  to  have 
been  at  Kittery  and  Saco,  Me.  From  these  two  foci  the  family 
has  spread  through  Maine  and  New  Hampshire,  and,  indeed,  in 
several  other  States  of  the  Union.  We  have  found  members  of 
the  family  in  Topsham,  Gardiner,  Saco,  Alfred,  Wells,  and 
Kittery,  Me.  ;  in  Portsmouth,  Dover,  Newmarket,  Exeter, 
Epping,  Andover,  Wolfboro',  and  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.  ;  not  to 
enumerate  other  towns  and  cities  "too  numerous  to  mention." 

The  earliest  Haleys  with  whom  this  sketch  has  chiefly  to  do 
lived  in  the  seventeenth  century.  They  were  Thomas  Haley 
of  Saco,  and  Andrew  Haley  of  Kittery,  Me.  They  were 
cotemporaries,  and,  it  is  supposed,  brothers,  or,  at  all  events, 
nearly  related.  Whether  they  themselves  were  emigrants  or  the 
sons  of  emigrants  does  not  yet  appear. 

Savage  mentions  a  William  Haley,  of  Roxbury,  formerly  of 
Lynn,  who  died  in  1683,  aged  70,  and  therefore  was  born  in  1613. 
May  not  this  William  be  the  one  whom  Farmer  mentions  as  a 
resident  of  Cambridge  in  1645  •''  And  may  not  Thomas  Healey 
(or  Haley),  whom  P'armer  locates  at  Cambridge  in  1635,  have 
been  the  father  of  Thomas  and  Andrew  above  mentioned,  who 
may  have  gone  in  early  manhood  from  the  vicinity  of  Boston  to 
Saco  and  Kittery.^  And  may  not  the  first  emigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Haley  family  have  landed  at  Lynn  or  at  Ipswich,  as  did  the 


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ancestor  of  the  Piper  family  ?     We  look  to  see  these  questions 
answered  in  Mrs.  Tooker's  forthcoming  book. 

Thomas  Haley  appeared  in  Saco  at  a  date  not  precisely 
settled,  but  previous  to  1650.  In  1653  this  man  was  one  of  those 
who,  in  writing,  promised  submission  to  the  government  of 
Massachusetts  ;  and,  in  the  same  year,  he  was  granted  "  2  akers 
of  marsh  "  at  the  division  of  public  lands  by  the  selectmen  of 
the  town  of  Saco.  And,  in  168 1,  the  town  granted  to  Thomas 
Haley  enough  additional  land  to  make  his  house  lot  equal  to  50 
acres.  In  1673,  Thomas  Haley  was  conducting  a  ferry  across 
the  Saco,  near  its  mouth.  And  the  court  ordered  that  he  should 
furnish  "a  good  sufficient  boat,"  capable  of  carrying  three  horses 
over  at  a  time. 

John  West,  an  early  settler,  was  living  in  Saco  in  1638,  but, 
about  1659,  he  removed  to. Wells,  where  he  died  in  1663. 
In  16153  Thomas  Haley  married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  John 
West.  She  died  in  1658,  quite  suddenly.  There  does  not  seem 
to  have  been  an  overflowing  cordiality  between  the  father-in-law 
and  Thomas;  since,  in  his  will.  West  bequeathed  certain  property 
to  his  grandchildren,  naming  William  Cole  of  Wells  tru.stee  for 
them,  with  the  curt  but  explicit  proviso  that  "  their  father, 
Thomas  Haley,  shall  have  nothing  to  do  with  it."  Thomas,  how- 
ever, had  property  of  his  own;  for,  about  1684,  he  transfers  his 
property  to  his  son  Thomas,  "my  only  beloved  son."  With 
regard  to  Thomas  and  Mary  (West)  Haley  :  this  couj^le  had  four 
children— Ann,  Lydia,  Samuel,  and  Thoma.s.  According  to 
Savage  and  FoLsom,  the  son,  Thomas,  Jr.,  "Sergeant  Haley," 
was  killed  by  the  Indians  near  Saco  Fort,  late  in  the  Summer  of 
1695.  He,  with  other  soldiers,  ventured  out  of  the  fort,  to  cut 
some  wood.  While  thus  engaged,  they  were  attacked  by  the 
savages,  and  he  was  slain. 

It  is  also  related  that  the  father,  Thomas,  Sr.,  was  slaughtered 
by  the  same  enemy  in  1724,  at  Wintef  Harbor.  The  story  goes 
that  the  redskins  tolled  him  into  the  woods,  near  sunset.  Having 
killed  his  cow,  they  took  her  bell,  and  tinkled  it  so  skilfully  as  to 
make  him  think  that  she  was  receding  from  him.  When  they 
had  enticed  him  to  a  sufficient  distance,  they  dispatched  him,  and 
cut  his  body  into  pieces,  as  a  butcher  cuts  up  a  hog!     We  sup- 


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pose  they  must  have  owed  him  a  peculiar  grudge,  for  some 
reason. 

It  may  be  added  that  Thomas,  Jr.,  is  said  to  have  married 
Sarah  Meyer,  though  the  date  of  the  marriage  is  not  known  to 
the  writer.  There  is  reason  for  believing  that  the  couple  had 
several  children,  as  may  be  inferred  from  "York  Deeds." 

From  "  N.  H.  Hist.  Coll."  we  learn  that,  in  1790,  "Thomas 
Hayley  "  was  living  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  at  the  age  of  98.  There 
is  a  well  authenticated  tradition  that,  up  to  within  three  or  four 
years  of  his  death,  this  hardy  old  man  was  accustomed,  once 
each  Summer,  to  swim  across  the  river  near  his  home,  and  to 
return  "in  the  same  way. 

We  judge  that  he  was  a  son  of  Thomas,  Jr.,  the  "  Sergeant," 
above  mentioned.  He  seems  to  have  been  born  in  1692,  some 
three  years  before  his  father's  tragic  end.  Authorities  generally 
agree  that  the  posterity  of  Thomas,  Sr.,  in  later  generations,  was 
very  numerous,  but  they  have  become  so  intermingled,  in  the 
process  of  the  years,  with  the  descendants  of  his  cotemporary 
Andrew,  that  it  is  indeed  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  to  draw  the 
•  line  of  division,  and  say  which  is  which. 

There  are  a  large  number  of  Haleys  in  the  State  of  Maine, 
and  elsewhere,  who  may  be  descendants  of  either  of  the  pioneers, 
so  far  as  appears.  Tn  the  following  sketch,  we  shall  deal  chiefly 
with  the  Kittery  line. 

FIRST    GENERATION. 

Andrew  Haley  of  Kittery  seems  to  have  had  his  residence 
in  that  part  of  the  town  known  as  "Spruce  Creek."  Unfortu- 
nately but  few  incidents  of  his  life  and  career  are  left  on  record. 
Some  have  asserted,  though  we  do  not  credit  it,  that  "  Haley's 
Island,"  one  of  the  "  Isles  of  Shoals,"  was  named  after  this 
pioneer.  His  name  appears  in  several  deeds,  and  other  docu- 
ments, at  intervals  for  a  number  of  years.  In  a  deed  to  Thomas 
Donill,  dated  Oct.  30,  1684,  he  is  styled  "Andrew  Haley,  fisher- 
man of  Spruce  Creek."  The  date  of  his  decease  I  have  been 
unable  to  learn. 

There  is  a  tradition  that  Andrew  and  his  family  owned  a 
large  tract  of  land — a  mile  square — at  "  Spruce  Creek."     It  is  said 


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that  the  remaios  of  the  ancestral  home  of  the  Haleys  are  still  to 
be  seen  at  that  place. 

SECOND    GENERATION. 

Andrew  Haley  married  Deborah,  daughter  of  Gowan 
Willson,  a  promment  citizen  of  Kittery.  Date  of  marriage 
unknown.  Andrew  received  a  "  deed  of  gift "  of  real  estate  on 
June  2,  1684. 

THEIR     CHILDREN. 

Andrew,  ]r„  m.  I'^lizabeth,  daughter  of  Humphrey  Scammon, 
July  25,  1697. 

Anna,  m.  Richard  Westgate. 
Deborah,  m.  Richard  Crockitt. 
Deliverance,  m.  George  Berry. 
Arodas,  m.  Samuel  Skillan. 
Elizabeth,  m.  Nicholas  Hillieur. 

THIRD    GENERATION. 

Andrew,  Jr.,  m.  IClizabeth  Scammon. 

THEIR    children. 

Elizabeth,  b.  June  25,  1698;  m.  Peter  Lewis,  Dec.  29,   1726. 

Andrew,  3d,  b.  Jan.  22,  1700  ;  m.  Mary  Briar  of  Kittery,  Aug. 
7,  1727;  d.  1775.     His  will  proved,  Jan.  25,  1776. 

William,  b.  I'^eb.  17,  1704;  died  early,  unmarried. 

Samuel,  b.  Feb.  17,  1706;  m.  Grace  Lewis,  Nov.  21,  1733; 
their  son  Samuel  bapt.  Mar.  21,  1751. 

Sarah,  b.  April  7,  1709;  m.  Joseph  Weeks  of  Kittery,  April 
23,  1726. 

John,  b.  June  14,  1712  ;  m. . 

Rebecca,  b.  1714;  m.  Charles  Smith,  July  19,  1735. 

FOURTH     GENERATION. 

Andrew,  31),  married  Mary  Briar. 

TIli:iK    CIIII.DKEX. 

John,  h.  June  20,  1737  ;  m.  Mary  Malcom  ;  settled  in  Hollis, 
Me.;  d.  18 16. 


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Joseph,  1).  1738;  m.  Mary  Goodwin;  d.  in  1800;  lived  in 
Topshani. 

Richard,  bapt.  July  5,  1741  ;  m.  Mary  Leavitt ;  settled  in 
Alfred  ;  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  died  Jan.  25, 
1829,  aged  88  years.  In  January,  1766,  Richard  Haley,  with 
Walter  Neal  and  others,  petitioned  the  Legislature  for  a  bridge 
over  the  river  at  a  plac/j  called  "  New  Fields."  (N.  H.  Provincial 
Papers,  Vol.  IX.,  pp.  594-5.) 

Andrew,  4th,  b. ;  m. ;  settled  in  Kittery. 

Mary,  b. ;  m.  Runlet. 

Elizabeth,  b.  ;  m.  Samuel  Neal  of  Stratham,  F'eb.  7, 

1754- 

[This  couple  were  among  the  ancestors  of  Mrs.  Mary  Neal 
Hanaford  of  Chadwick,  III,  a  lady  who  is  much  interested  in  the 
history  and  genealogy  of  the  Neal  family.] 

John,  m. . 


THEIR    CHILDREN. 

The  names  of  nine  are  recorded,  but  I  have  the  name  of 
but  one.  That  one,  Robert,  m.  Elizabeth  Parker,  Sept.  10,  1772. 
And  their  son,  Robert,  Jr„  became  the  founder  of  a  family  in  Tuf- 
tonboro',  N.  H.,  which  will  be  noticed  later  on.  It  may  be  added 
that  William,  the  brother  of  Robert,  Jr.,  was  the  great-grandfather 
of  Mrs.  E.  C.  Tooker,  the  historian  of  the  Haley  Family.  The 
line  of  descent  is  as  follows :  William  above  named  married 
Nancy  Doane  in  1807.  They  had  four  children.  Of  these,  John 
Doane  Haley  married  Mary  J.  Jones,  and  they  had  four  children. 
Of  these  latter,  Christina  J,  married  John  W.  Stimson,  and  they 
had  two  children.  Of  the  latter,  Maude  W„  born  Oct.  9,  1863, 
married  PIdmund  C.  Tooker,  Dec.  8,  1886.  They  have  three 
children.  Mrs.  Tooker  is  gathering,  with  great  zeal  and  diligence, 
materials  for  the  History  of  the  Haley  Family.  Her  P.  O. 
address  is  68  West  P^ortieth  Street,  New  York  City. 


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FIFTH  GENERATION. 

John   II.\li:v,  m.  Mary  Malcom. 

TIIKIK    CIIII.DKKX. 

Accoi-ding"  to  Ridloii,  they  had  the  chikh'cn,  of  whom  Capt 
William  was  one.  lie  went  to  Mollis  in  1795,  and  died  there  in 
1863.      It  is  stated  that  Capt.  William  had  ele\-cn  children. 

Josi'.i'ii,  m.  Mary  Goodwin  of  W'clls  ;  moved  to  Brunswick, 
and  later  to  Toi:)sham,  where  he  died  in  May,  1800. 

IIIKIR    CIIILDRKX. 

Susanna,  Joseph,  Mary,  (m.  Goodwin  of  Wells),  Joshua,  John, 
(b.  in  1777),  Samuel.  Moses, 

[Another  Josiwii  IIalkv  was  a  resident  of  Topsham,  and 
followed  the  clothier's  trade,  being  known  as  "Fuller  Haley.'' 
He  was  a  contemporary  of  the  Joseph  above  named,  who  married 
Mary  Goodwin,  and  was  related  to  him,  but  I  know  not  in  what 
degree. 

This  J()si:iMi  m  Ivsthcr  Towns,  of  Kennebunk,  and  they  had 
twehe  children  : 

John,  b.  May  4,  1777;  m.   MiUiken. 

Olive,  b.  Jan.  22,  1779;  m.  Obed   Burnham. 

Jesse,  1).  Sej:)!.  8,  1780;  unmarried. 

Susanna,  b.  Oct.  8,  1783  ;  ni.  David  I^'oster. 

Sarah,  b.  July  22,  1784;  m.  Actor  Wil.son. 

Joseph,  b.  Dec.  6,  1785  ;  m.   Towns  of  Kennebunk. 

Esther,  b.  May  6,  1787;  m.  Timothy  Foster. 

Rebecca,!).  Dec.  i,  1788;  unmarried. 

James,  b.  Oct.  26,  1790;  m.  Lois  Durell. 

Abigail,  b.  Aug.  2,  1793  ;  unmarried. 

Abner,  b.  Mar.   30,  1795. 

Ruth,  b.  Nov.  4,  1796;  unmarried. 

Vov  sketches  of  Capt.  Peletiah  of  To|)sham,  with  other 
Haleys,  the  reader  is  referred  to  Wheeler's  "  History  of  Bruns- 
wick and  To|)sham,"  and  for  accounts  of  Benjamin  Haley,  a  very 
prominent  citizen,  and  others  of  the  name  in  Saco,  one  may  con- 
sult  Folsom's  "  History  of  Saco  and    Biddeford.''     It  should  be 


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added  that  the  Saco  Haleys  seem  mainly  or  wholly  to  have 
sprung  from  Thomas,  rather  than  from  Andrew  Haley,  although 
there  has  been  more  or  less  of  intermixture  of  the  two  lines  in 
the  process  of  time.] 

Richard  married  Mary  Leavitt,  and  settled  at  first  in 
Kittery,  and  later  in  Alfred.  By  his  father's  will,  dated  1777,  he 
received  certain  lands  and  buildmgs  in  Kittery  and  Berwick,  and 
was  named  the  sole  executor  of  the  will. 

Mary  Leavitt,  it  is  said,  was  related  to  one  branch  of  the 
family,  which  formerly  lived  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H. — the  Leavitts 
who  lived  on  the  "  Mountain  Road,"  so  called,  but  I  cannot  state 
the  precise  relationship. 

CHILDREN    OF    RICHARD    AND    MARY. 

Andrew,  b. ;  m. Abbott ;  settled  in  Shapleigh 

Me.;  d. . 

William,  b.  abt.  1765  ;  m.  Lois  Ricker  of  Coxhall  (now 
Lyman)  abt.  1790-91  ;  d.  April,  1830. 

Nathaniel,  b. ;  m.  Sarah   Barter  of   Alfred  ;  moved  to 

Parsonsfield,  where  he  died.  His  family  seem  to  have  removed 
to  Cornish,  where  some  of  his  descendants  are  still  residing. 

Richard,  b. ;  m.   Mehitable  Hutchins  of  Kennebunk 

Port  ;  lived  and  died  in  Alfred. 

Nancy,  b. ;  m.   an  Abbott ;.  moved  to  Shapleigh,  and 

died  there. 

Mary  (Polly),  b.  Mar.  19,  1780;  m.  Joseph  Averill,  July  13, 
1808,  as  his  third  wife  ;  settled  in  Berwick,  Me.;  died  in  Lowell, 
Mass.  (By  the  three  wives  Mr.  Averill  was  the  father  of  nine- 
teen children.) 

Susan  (Sukey),  b.  Jan.,  1783;  m.  Jonathan  Trafton;  passed 
her  life  in  Alfred,  and  died  July  17,  1881,  aged  98  years  and  6 
months. 

Betsey,  b.  Nov.,  1785  ;  m.  Samuel  Trafton;  lived  in  Alfred, 
and  died  Dec.  23,  1876,  aged  91  years  and  i  month. 

P'rom  this  venerable  lady,  the  writer  obtained,  many  years 
since,  numerous  items  of  genealogical  information  of  the  highest 
value. 


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Richard  Haley,  Sr.,  was,  as  noted  above,  a  soldier  in  the 
American  Revolution.  From  records  preserved  in  the  archives 
at  Augusta,  Me.,  and  at  Boston,  Mass.,  I  gather  the  following 
items : 

It  appears  that  he  enlisted  subsequent  to  Jan.  i,  1 781,  at 
which  time  the  general  government  took  charge  of  enlistments. 
His  service  was  in  "  the  Massachusetts  line,"  as  the  records  state. 
He  received  a  pension  of  $96  a  year,  beginning  with  April  8, 
1818,  and  died,  as  above  .stated,  on  Jan.  25,  1829,  at  the  age  of 
88  years. 

It  is  rather  singular  that  another  "  Richard  Haley  "'  was  also 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  hailing,  apparently,  from 
Cornish,  in  New  Hampshire.  He  was  Sergeant  in  Col.  Jonathan 
Chase's  regiment,  and  marched  with  his  comrades  to  reinforce 
the  garrison  at  Ticonderoga  in  1777. 

I  have  been  unable  to  learn  anything  with  regard  to  the 
lineage  of  this  Richard  Haley. 

SIXTH    GENERATION. 
Andkkw,  m.  an  Abbott,  and  settled  in  Shapleigh. 

TllKIK    CHILDREN. 

It  is  said  that  eleven  children  were  born  to  this  couple,  but 
I  have  the  name  of  Clara  only,  who  was  reported  a  resident  of 
Dover,  N.  H  some  years  since. 

William,  m.  Lois  Ricker,  and  settled,  first,  in  Alfred;  then, 
in  1797,  when  his  daughter  Elsie  was  an  infant,  he  moved  to 
Tuftonboro'  Neck,  N.  II.  Later  the  family  lived  near  the  "Nine- 
teen Mile  Brook,"  so  called;  finally  removing  to  the  Okl  Hill, 
now  styled  "Mount   Pleasant,"  where  William  and  his  wife  died. 

THEIR    CllII.DREX. 

Betsey,  b.  in  Alfred  about  1793;  m.  Rev.  Joim  Walker, 
May  7,  1820;  moved  later  to  Ossipee,  N.  H. ;  had  one  ilaughter, 
Betsey,  who  m.  Cyrus  Hanson,  and  tl.  without  childreiL  Mr. 
Walker  d.  in  Ossipee  in  May,  1870,  and  his  wife  d.  Nov.  16,  1S88, 
at  the  age  of  95. 


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Elsie,  b.  in  Alfred,  May  22,  1797;  m.  Samuel  Piper,  Nov.  6, 
1822;  had  five  children;  d.  May  4,  1895,  aged  98  years,  lacking 
eighteen  days. 

(See  further  particulars  under  "Piper  Genealogy.") 

Sally,  b.  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  June  21,  1799;  m.  David 
Piper  in  1820;  had  seven  children;  d.  Sept.  9,  1876. 

(See  further  under  "Piper  Genealogy.") 

Thatcher,  b.  April  7,  1801;  d.  of  typhus  fever  at  Dan  vers, 
Mass.,  Sept.  3,  1822. 

William,  b.  May  29,  1803;  d.  of  typhus  fever  at  Danvers, 
Aug.  14,  1822.  The  certificate  of  the  undertaker,  Thomas  Boden 
of  Danvers,  shows  that,  owing  no  doubt  to  the  contagious  nature 
of  the  fever,  William  was  buried  on  the  very  day  of  his  decease. 
I  think  that  the  same  was  true  of  Thatcher.  The  sudden  death 
of  these  two  sons  in  their  early  manhood  was  a  life-long  sorrow 
to  their  afiflicted  mother. 

John  Smith,  b.  Scpi.  11,  1805;  m.  Mary  Neal,  daughter  of 
Timothy  and  Hannah  (Neal)  Piper,  on  Dec.  20,  1832;  d.  April 
26,  1884,  aged  y8  years.     They  had  six  children. 

Enoch,  b.  Oct.  31,  1807;  m.  Cynthia,  daughter  of  P'rancis 
and  Abigail  (Wiggin)  Piper,  on  May  4,  1834;  d.  July  31,  1894. 
Two  children. 

Louisa,  b.  Mar.  7,  1810  ;  m.  George  W.  Davis  of  New  Dur- 
ham, in  March,  1840;  d.  June  19,  1883.  Two  children.  Mr. 
Davis  was  born  May  29,  1808,  and  died  June  9,  1865. 

Grandfather  William,  in  1806,  was  commissioned  as  Ensign 
in  the  27th  Regiment  of  militia,  his  commission  bearing  date  of 
June  6th,  and  being  signed  by  Gov.  John  Langdon  of  N.  H. 
Grandfather  is  said  to  have  been  some  six  feet  in  height,  weigh- 
ing about  180  pounds;  with  dark  hair  and  eyes,  and  alert  and 
active  in  his  movements.  In  his  earlier  manhood  he  labored  as 
a  ship  carpenter  in  various  ship  yards  along  the  coast,  presuma- 
bly in  Kittery,  York  and  Wells.  In  181 8  he  purchased  the  Old 
Hill,  in  Tuftonboro',  where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
The  deed,  dated  Jan.  13,  181 8,  was  given  by  Alexander  Ladd  of 
Portsmouth,  one  of  the  early  Proprietors.  Grandfather  came  to 
his  end  in  a  singular  manner.  He  was  working  in  a  well,  and  a 
stone  becoming  detached  at  the  top,  fell,  striking  him   on  the 


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back,  causing  a  wound  which  speedily  developed  into  a  malignant 
cancer,  resulting  in  his  death  after  months  of  suffering. 

Nathaniel,  brother  of  William,  b.  in  Kittery ;  m.  Sarah 
Barter  of  Alfred ;  d.  in  Parsonsfield. 

THEIK    CHILDREN. 

Benjamin,  ni.  lietsey  Sargent,  and  had  three  children, — 
Harrison  (m.  Alary  Whitten,  and  had  si.x  children),  Sarah  (m. 
John  Linscott  of  Cornish,  and  had  three  children),  Abbie  (m. 
Andrew  J.  Woodman  of  Wilmington,  Del,  and  had  three 
children). 

Lydia.  m.  Paul  Pende.xter,  and  had  nine  children. 

Polly,  m.  Noah-  Weeks,  and  had  seven  children. 

Nancy,  died  unmarried. 

Richard,  m.  Mehitable  Hutchins.  Born,  I  judge,  in  Kittery ; 
lived  and  died  in  Alfred. 

THEIR    children. 

John,  m.  a  Gerry ;  had  one  son,  Joseph  G. ;  d. 

Leavitt,  m.  Lucy  Going.  They  had  six  children, — Charles, 
Timothy,  Louisa  J.,  Hannah  A.,  Richard,  Frank. 

Andrew,  m.  Lydia  Trijjp.  Four  children, — Alonzo,  Lydia 
F.,  Ferdinand  O.,  Alfred  L. 

Mary  married  Nathaniel  Leach,  and  died  many  years  since. 

Susan,  b.  iSogor  1 8  lo,  m.  John  Lewis,  and  had  three  children, — 
ILinnah  J.  (m.  Paul  Webber  in  1855  ;  had  one  son,  Eugene  L.), 
Abbie  M.,  not  married,  Mary  L.,  m.  Roberts. 

Mr.  Lewis  was  the  only  son  of  Morgan  Lewis,  Jr,  who 
married  Mary'  Shorey  of  Wolfeboro',  N.  H.,  presumably  the 
sister  of  John  Shorey,  the  first  of  the  name  in  that  town. 
Morgan,  Jr.,  was  the  youngest  son  of  I\Lajor  Morgan  Lewis  of 
the  Revolutionary  Army. 

Nancy,  m.  an  Abbott;  settled  in  Shapleigh.  Mc. ;  had  twelve 
children,  namely : 

James  H.,  resident  of  Great  I'alls,  N.  IL 

William,  resident  of  Boston,  Mass. 


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Richard,  resident  of  Portland,  Me. 
Mary  A.  Ham,  resident  of  Shapleigh,  Me. 
Nancy  Wherrin,  resident  of  Kittery,  Me., 
Susan  Webber,  resident  of  Shapleigh,  Me. 
Alice  Tiney,  resident  of  VVenham,  Mass. 
Andrew,  resident  of  Portland,  Me. 
Lucretia  Woodsum,  resident  of  Peterboro',  Me. 
Nathaniel,  resident  of  Shapleigh,  Me. 
Philena,  resident  of  Wenham,  Mass. 
John,  d.  in  Havana,  Cuba. 

In  the  case  of  five  of  the  daughters  in  this  list,  I  have  given 
their  names  as  they  stood  after  marriage. 

Mary,  m.  Joseph  Averill,  and  settled  in  Berwick. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Rachel,  b.  P'eb.  8,  1810;  m.  Siner ;  no  children;  d.  in 
'Lowell,  Mass. 

Eliza,  b.  Mar.  25,  1811  ;  m.  John  Livingstone;  no  children. 
He  died  in  Lowell,  and  she  died  in  Beverly. 

Susan,  b.  Aug.  7,  1812;  m.  Judge  Pillsbury,  and  lived  in 
Penola,  111. 

William,  b.  Mar.  20,  1814;  lived  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Alexander,  b.  Sept.  19,  18 15. 

Nathaniel,  b.  Jan.  2,  181 8;  lived  in  Leepertown,  111. 

Joseph,  b.  July  i,  1819;  lived  in  Springfield,  Mass. 

Samuel,  b.  Dec.  7,  1820;  lived  in  Springfield. 

Richard,  b.  Sept.  6,  1823  ;  d.  in  Penola,  111. 

Mary  (Haley)  Averill,  the  mother,  died  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  at 
the  residence  of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Livingstone. 

Betsey,  m.  Samuel  Trafton,  and  lived  in  Alfred. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Olive,  who  died  early. 

John,  m.  Betsey  Jewett ;  settled  in  Alfred.     Three  children, 
— Samuel,  Olive  and  Lizzie. 
Lorenzo  (M.  D.),  deceased. 


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Sl'Sax,  m.  Jonathan  Trafton,  and  settled  in  Alfred. 

THEIK    ClIILDKKN. 

Henrietta,  ni.  Nathaniel  Leach.  They  lived  in  Kennebunk 
Port. 

Abiel  Gardner,  m.  (i)  Susan  Allen,  (2)  Hannah,  her  sister, 
(3)  Lydia  Lewis.  One  child  by  each  wife.  Dr.  Clark  was  son  of 
first  wife,  and  Dr.  Alonzo,  now  of  Boston,  was  son  of  the  second. 

Theodore,  ni. ;  lived  in  the  Aroostook  country,  I 

believe. 

Susan,  m.  (i)  Wormwood,  (2)  Larrabee ;  settled  in  Kenne- 
bunk Port. 

Hannah,  m.  James  Bean  ;  children,  Lorenzo  and  Charles. 
She  died  in  July,  1899. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION. 
Betsey  Halev,  m.  Rev.  John  Walker. 

THEIR    CHILDKE.X. 

Betsey,  b. ;  m.  Cyrus  Hanson  ;  d. . 

Elsie,  m.  Samuel  Piper. 

THEIR    CIIII.DREX. 

(See  "  Piper  Genealogy.") 
SALL^■,  m.  David  Piper. 

THEIR    CIIII.DKEX. 

(See  "Piper  Genealogy.") 
John  Smiiii   Hai.ev,  m.  Mary  Neal  Piper. 
Tin:iR  cHir.i)Ri:.\. 

John  "William,  b,  June  8,  1834;  m.,  Nov.  12,  i860,  Caroline 
S.,  daughter  of  Titus  V.  Wadsworth  of  l"'ranklin,  N.  IL,  graduate 
of  Mt.  Ilolyoke  Seminary,  class  of  1859. 

•nii':iR  cmi.DRicx. 

Clarence  Park,  b.  Jan.  6,  1863;  d.  Dec.  6,  1865. 
Ernest  Hutchinson,  b.  Aug.  8,  1864;  d.  Mar.  23,  1868. 
Herman  Wadsworth,  b.  May  7,  1867;  d.  Sept.  24,  1899. 


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Eugene,  b.  Mar.  19,  1869;  d.  Mar.  20,  1873. 

Cora  Evelyn,  b.  Oct.  2,  1870. 

Alice  VVarde,  b.  Dec.  12,  1872. 

Mabel  Rosalind,  b.  Oct.  3,  1874;  d.  Sept.  26,  1875. 

Eerdinand  H.,  b.  June  14,  1879. 

Grace,  b.  Sept.  28,  1881  ;  d.  Sept.  30. 

[John  W.,  graduated  at  Dart.  Coll.  i860;  Andover  Sem. 
1864;  published  "Discrepancies  of  the  Bible,"  1874  ;  "Hereafter 
of  Sni,"  1881;  edited  and  collaborated  Lowell  Hebrew  Club's 
"Translation  of  the  Book  of  Esther,  with  Notes  and  Excur- 
suses," 1885.  He  has  nearly  ready  for  the  press  "  Fancies  and 
Follies  of  the  Middle  Ages,"  and  a  treatise  on  the  Accumulation 
of  Wealth.  His  son,  Herman  W.  (Amherst  Coll.,  1887,  and 
Ph.  D.,  Harvard),  published  "  Introduction  to  the  Verse  of 
Terence,"  1894;  contributed  Pp.  437-485  to  Lane's  Latin 
Grammar;  and  in  1898  published  an  elaborate  critical  edition  of 
the  "Alcestis"  of  Euripides.  He  died  in  Boston,  Sept.  24, 
1899.  At  the  time  of  his  decease,  he  was  Professor  of  Latin  in 
Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Conn. ;  and  had  begun  the 
preparation  of  a  critical  edition  of  the  Latin  poet  Terence.  He 
had  also  contributed  to  "  Harvard  Studies  "  and  other  learned 
periodicals.] 

Hannah  Elisabeth,  b.  July  18,  1836  ;  d.  Sept.  4,  1838. 

Mary  Eleanor,  b.  Sept.  5,  1838  ;  m.  Rev.  Hiram  C.  Duganne, 
May  19,  1861.  He  died  June  14,  1885.  In  July,  1870,  Mr. 
Duganne  took  charge  of  the  "  Ministry-at-Large,"  in  Lowell, 
Mass.,  which  position  he  filled  most  efficiently  and  creditably  for 
fifteen  years,  until  his  decease.  During  this  period  he  was  ably 
seconded  by  his  devoted  wife,  who  continued  in  the  benevolent 
work  nearly  two  years  after  the  death  of  her  husband.  They 
had  no  children. 

Timothy  Avans,  M.  D.,  b.  July  24,  1840  ;  served  in  the  Civil 
War  in  Co.  K,  12th  Reg.,  N.  H.  V.;  afterwards  graduated  from 
Dart.  Med.  Coll.,  1867;  m.  Corinne  C.  Pierce  of  Dighton,  Mass., 
Dec.  19,  1869;  practised  medicine  in  his  native  town  successfully 
for  some  thirty  years.     They  have  no  children. 

Joshua  Makenzie,  b^Jul^  ii,  1843.  Is  unmarried,  and  living 
in  Tuftonboro',  on  the  homestead. 


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Hannah  Elisabeth,  2cl,  b.  Nov.  24,  1845;  grad.  Bates  Coll., 
Me.,  1873;  "Christ.  Biblical  Institute,"  N.  Y.,  1877;  afterwards 
a  successful  evangelist  in  N.  E.,  the  Middle  States,  and,  to  some 
extent,  in  the  West.  Large  numbers  of  persons  professed  con- 
version under  her  faithful  ministrations.  She  died  in  Lo\ve!l, 
Mass.,  Dec.  21,  1897. 

Enoch  Halev,  m.  Cynthia  Piper. 

THEIR    CHILDREN.        ^,  j  j.  J^^  . /^, /,  ;^,;/^  , /T./, 

Frank,  Rev.  and  M.  D.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1835^;  grad.  Dart.  Med. 
Coll.,  185&;  Andover  Theo.  Sem.,  1863  ;  m.  (i)  on  Dec.  21,  1857, 
Rhoda  J.  'Hayes,  (b.  Oct.  i,  1840;  d.  Feb.  23,  1877);  (2)  Strsaft 
Plummer,  on  May  i,  1878.  "^xx^oM^ 

Children,  by  first  marriage  —  Mary  Lillian,  b.  Sept.  25,  1858  ; 
m.  Albert  L.  Hunt,  Dec.  21,  1882  ;  d.  in  Boston,  April  16,  1891  ; 
Agnes  Cynthia,  b.  Jan.  29,  1864.  By  second  marriage — Susan 
Plummer,  b.  in  Seabrook,  N.  H.,  Sept.  15,  1879. 

In  his  twofold  capacity  Dr.  P>ank  has  been  able  to  minister 
effectively  to  both  the  physical  and  the  spiritual  needs  of  the 
community.  He  is  a  resident  of  Milton,  N.  H.,  and  is  librarian 
of  the  Nute  Library  in  that  town. 

Abbie  R,  b.  April  12,  1847  ;  m.  John  W.  Parker,  Dec.  23, 
1869.     One  son,  Ralph  Samuel,  b.  . 

Louis.v,  m.  George  W.  Davis  of  New  Durham  ;  afterwards 
removed  to  Moultonboro',  N.  H. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Charles  Woodbury,  b.  Jan.  9,  1842  ;  m.  Sarah  S.  I'^-rnald, 
May  28,  1 87 1.  They  have  no  children.  Mr.  Davis  is  a  well 
known  and  prosperous  business  man.  now  residing  at  Mclviji 
Village,  N.  H. 

Ruth,  b.  July  19,  1847  ;  d.  Jan.  19,  1869.     She  died  unmarried. 


Robert  Halev,  Jr.,  a  descendant  of  Andri;w  of  Spruce 
Creek,  was  the  founder  of  a  family  of  Haleys  in  Tuftonboro'. 


^hillaber,  b. 
'  -•■•  boro',  Aug.  8,  li 


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His  line  of  descent  is  as  follows  :  Andrew  (i),  Andrew,  Jr.  (2), 
John  (3),  Robert  (4),  Robert,  Jr.  (5). 

Robert,  Sr.,  m.  Elizabeth  Parker,  Sept.  10,  1772. 

Robert,  Jr.,  b.  in  Kittery,  Dec.  22,  1778;  killed  on  railroad 
near  So.  Berwick,  Feb.  20,  1845.  He  married  (i)  Nancy  Shil- 
laber,  of  Portsmouth,  March  14,  1802;  (2)  Mrs.  Sally  (White- 
house)  Wiggin.  First  wife  b.  July  25,  1779;  d.  Jan.  23,  1832. 
All  the  children  were  by  the  first  marriage,  and  all  are  dead. 

SIXTH    GENERATION. 
Robert  Haley,  Jr.,  m.  Nancy  Shillaber. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Eliza,  b.  in  Eliot,  Me.,  Dec.  22,  1802. 
^hillaber,  b.  in  Rochester,  N.  H.,  July  15,  1804 

Rochester,   N.   H.,  Oct.  23,  1808;  d.   in  Wolfe- 
;88o. 

Twin  boys  died  in  infancy. 

Parker,  b.  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  Sept.  20,  181 5. 
Nathaniel,  b.  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  May  10,  1818. 
John,  b.  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  May  2,  1820. 
Nancy  S„  born  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  Nov.  18,  1823  ;  d.  July 
16,  1869. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION. 

Abel  Haley,  m.  (i)  Mrs.  Edith  (Dodge)  Tibbetts,  Dec.  25, 
1831.  She  was  born  in  Beverly,  Mass.,  Mar.  17,  1799,  and  died 
in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H,  June  17,  1850.  He  married  (2)  Mrs. 
Lucinda  C.  (Piper)  Pinkham,  daughter  of  Adjutant  John  Piper. 
The  children  were  all  by  the  first  marriage,  and  all  born  in 
Tuftonboro'. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Abel,  b.  Aug.  27,  1832,  d.  Oct.  6,  1834. 

Nancy  S.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1834,  d.  Mar.  14,  1871  ;  m.  Edwin 
Livingstone,  Nov.  14,  1866;  no  children. 

Abel  S„  b.  Mar.  30,  1835  ;  d.  April  14,  1891  ;  m.  Laura  A. 
French,  Sept.  28,  1862;  two  children,— Fred  H.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1872  ; 
Blanche,  b.  Dec.  28,  1876. 


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Lydia  C  b.  Nov.  14,  1836;  m.  Hazeltine  Wiggin,  Aug.,  1859. 
No  children.     Mr.  Wiggin  died  .some  years  since. 

Levi  T.,  b.  June  20,  1838  ;  m.  Mary  L.  Evans,  Feb.  15,  1879. 
One  son.  Abel,  b.  April  19,  1880.  Levi  was  for  some  years 
sheriff  of  Carroll  Co. 

James  D„  b.  Nov.  17,  1839;  m.  Clara  Colbar,  IVLiy  6,  1886. 
Three  children,— Paul,  b.  May  8,  1887;  Edith  D.,  b.  Nov.  24, 
1888;  Russell,  b.  Aug.,  1894. 

Edith  D„  b.  Mar.  30,  1842;  m.  Wm.  H.  Cate,  June  i,  1862. 
One  son,  Fred  H.,  b.  Sept.  23,  1867.     Manchester,  N.  H. 

Sarah  E.,  b.  June  i,  1845  !  unmarried. 

Ainu.,  Sk.,  was  a  prominent  citizen,  and  hektmany  offices  of 
responsibility  during  his  residence  in  Tuftonbort)'and  Wolfeboro'. 

Joiix,  brother  of  the  last  named,  m.  (i)  Sarah  Barker  of 
Stratham  ;  (2)  Mrs.  Margaret  (Whitney)  Bartlett. 

THEIR    CIIILDKEN. 

By  first  wife, — Charles,  and  twi)  daughters,  names  unknown 
to  me. 

By  second  wife, — a  daughter,  Ida,  recently  deceased. 
Residence  of  family,  Tuftonboro',  N.  H. 

Much  more  might  be  said  concerning  the  descendants  of 
Andrew  Haley,  the  old-time  dweller  at  "Spruce  Creek,''  Kit- 
tery,  but  our  limits  will  not  permit. 


\Vc  revert,  for  a  few  moments,  to  Tho.mas  Haley  of  Saco, 
and  his  numerous  jiosterity. 

Samuel  Gordon  Haley,  previously  mentioned,  author  of  the 
excellent  MS.  sketch  of  a  branch  of  the  Haley  Family,  was  a 
descendant  of  the  Saco  pioneer.  He  was  the  son  of  Thoma.s  and 
Eliza  (Whicher)  Haley  of  East  Andover,  N.  H.  I  believe  that 
Thomas  was  born  in  lapping,  and  his  wife  in  Wentworth,  N.  H. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Samuel  Gordon,  b.  May  7,  1832:  d.  Jan.  14,  1881.  He  grad- 
uated  at   Dart.   Coll.    i860;  m.  Anna  M.  Mocker,  June  30,  1874; 


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taught  successfully  in  Illinois  and  Michigan ;  d.  at  Oshtemo, 
Mich.,  as  above. 

Elizabeth;,,  b.  May  20,  1834. 

Thomas  Jefferson,  b.  July  7,  1836. 

George  Henry,  b.  Aug.  9,  1838. 

Harriette  Maria,  b.  Jan.  21,  1841. 

As  intimated  above,  the  Haleys  of  the  Isles  of  Shoals,  and, 
we  may  add,  those  of  Newmarket,  Exeter,  Dover,  Epping  and 
Andover,  N.  H.,  seem  to  be  mainly  or  wholly  descendants  of  the 
Saco  pioneer. 


John  West  Haley,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Saco,  and  con- 
nected with  the  "  Dyer  Library,"  may  be  a  descendant  of 
Thomas,  but  as  to  this  I  am  not  certain. 


A  prominent  family  in  Kittery,  Me.,  the  Bellamys,  are  of 
the  same  lineage.     The  line  of  descent  is  given  as  follows  : — 

Thomas,  of  Saco,  killed  1724. 

Thomas,  Jr.,  killed  1695. 

Thomas,  30,  of  Exeter,  b.  1692;  d.  1790. 

[Doubtless  it  was  this  "Thomas  Hayley  "  who,  in  connec- 
tion with  Robert  Nealand  many  other  citizens  of  southern  N.H., 
in  April,  1776,  at  the  instance  of  the  "Committee  of  Public 
Safety"  (Hon.  Meshech  Weare,  Pres.),  pledged  himself  in  writing 
to  resist  the  hostile  attempts  of  Gi'eat  Britain.] 

Thomas,  313,  m. ,  and  they  had  four  children. 

Of  these,  Samuel  King  Haley  was  born  in  1727,  and  died  in  181 1. 
He  was  very  prominent  and  influential  in  the  affairs  of  the  Isles 
of  Shoals,  where  he  seems  to  have  been  a  resident  for  many 
years.  He,  in  order  to  protect  the  harbor,  built  a  sea  wall  14 
rods  long,  13  feet  high  and  15  feet  wide,  between  "Haley's 
Island''  (formerly  called  "Smutty  Nose")  and  the  small  rock  on 
it's  north,  known  as  "  Malaga."  For  this  work  he  received  the 
thanks  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature.  His  old  watch  is  still 
in  existence  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     Mr.  Ridlon  mistakes  in  attribut- 


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ing  the  building  of  the  sea  wall  to  Andrew,  of  Kittery.  "  King 
Sam  "  was  the  builder,  near  the  beginning  of  the  present  century. 
Samuel  King  m.  Mary  Orme.  The  couple  had  twelve  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Tamsen,  b.  1769,  was  the  ninth.  She  married  John 
Bellamy,  and  they  had  ten  children.  Of  these,  the  ninth,  Charles 
G.,  "  Captain  Bellamy,"  as  he  was  styled,  married  1^'annie  Keane. 
They  lived  in  the  "Sir  William  Pepperell  mansion  "  in  Kittery, 
and  had  nine  children,  several  of  whom  were  the  writer's  pupils 
many  years  since. 


The  late  Jacob  Burlev  of  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  was,  on  his 
mother's  side,  of  the  lineage  of  Thomas  Haley  of  Saco. 

His  parents  were  Jonathan  and  Sarah  (Haley)  Burley  ;  and 
he  was  born  in  Wakefield,  N.  H.,  July  7,  1785,  and  died  in  Tuf- 
tonboro', May  31,  1867. 

Jacob  Burley,  m.  Susannah  Dearborn,  July  4,  1809. 

their  children. 

Elizabeth,  m.  Dearborn  Copp. 

Jonathan  Haley,  m. Tibbetts. 

Bradley,  m.  (i) Pray,  (2)  Hannah  Wiggin. 

Susan,  m.  Samuel  Remick. 

Sarah  A.,  m.  (i)  Langdon  Copp,  (2)  Andrew  L.  Hersey. 


Many  other  very  interesting  lines  of  relationship,  both  direct 
and  collateral,  might  be  traced  out,  would  our  space  permit.  It 
is  sufficient  to  say  that  through  intermarriages,  in  the  process  of 
years,  the  most  curious  and  unlooked  for  relationships  continually 
arise. 

But  for  the  further  discussion  of  this  interesting  topic  we 
must  respectfully  refer  the  reader  to  Mrs.  Tooker's  forthcoming 
History  of  the  Haley  Family. 

Relative  to  the  Hayleys,  or  Ilaleys,  of  New  York,  we  add 
the  following  items,  furnished  by  Mr.  A.  Forbes,  of  Rochester, 
N.  Y.  : 


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In  the  Marriage  Register  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York 
City,  is  found  this  notice: — "Gilbert  Forbes  and  Philenda  Hayley, 
April  28,  1748."  This  couple  were  the  great-great-grandparents 
of  Mr.  Forbes.  They  had  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters; 
the  third  cliild,  a  son,  being  the  great-grandfather  of  our  corre- 
spondent, and  the  second,  a  daughter,  named  Jemima. 

As  a  possible  clue  to  the  parentage  of  Philenda,  above- 
named,  the  "  Register  of  Freemen  of  New  York  City"  has  this 
notice:  "July  12,  1720,  Jemima  Haley,  widow."  On  this  .state- 
ment Mr.  Forbes  remarks:  '-In  those  days,  it  was  quite  the 
custom  to  name  a  child  after  its  grandparent,  and  consequently 
I  think  it  likely  that  Jemima,  daughter  of  Philenda,  was  the 
granddaughter  of  Jemima  Haley,  widow,  and  so  was  named  after 
her." 

Every  one  familiar  with  old-time  records  is  aware  that  a 
slight  difference  in  the  spelling  of  a  name  is  of  little  or  no 
account.  In  many  cases,  the  writer  was,  so  far  as  spelling  was 
concerned,  a  law  unto  himself. 

It  may  be  added  that  Philenda  Forbes  (formerly  Hayley) 
appears  as  a  witness  at  a  baptism,  as  late  as  1774. 

It  occurs  as  a  possible  suggestion  that  the  earliest  Haleys, 
previously  noted  as  migrating  from  England  to  the  West  Indies, 
may  have  come  later  to  New  York,  and  after  that,  some  of  them 
removing  to  New  England,  may  have  become  the  founders  of 
the  families  described  in  this  book.  That  is  to  say,  instead  of 
coming  direct  from  London  to  some  seaport  of  New  Hampshire 
or  Maine,  they  may  have  come  by  the  way  of  the  West  Indies, 
New  York,  and  Boston. 

On  a  previous  page,  we  have  indicated  our  preference  for  a 
peculiar  form  of  the  family  name,  and  expressed  our  opinion  that 
the  Haleys  are,  in  all  probability,  of  western  English  origin. 

A  recent  incident  mentioned  in  the  newspapers  points  to  the 
same  conclusion.  In  the  late  battle  between  the  British  and  the 
Boers  at  Elandslaagte,  South  Africa,  "  Lieut.  Hayley,"  of  the 
First  Devonshire  Regiment,  was  reported  among  the  wounded. 
Devonshire,  it  will  be  remembered,  is  one  of  the  westernmost 
counties  of  England. 


PIPER    FAMILY. 


Many  of  the  facts  relative  to  the  earlier  Pipers,  which  are 
recorded  in  this  little  book,  have  been  culled  from  the  Piper 
Genealogy,  published  by  the  late  Horace  Piper,  Esq.,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  a  work  which  reflects  great  credit  upon  its  lamented 
author's  enterprise,  perseverance,  and  painstaking  accuracy. 
Unfortunately,  however,  the  work  mentions  only  two  or  three 
individuals  of  the  very  numerous  Wolfeboro'  and  Tuftonboro' 
(N.  H.)  Pipers  —  a  large  and  respectable  branch  of  the  family, 
in  which  the  writer  of  these  pages  is  specially  interested.  Hence 
I  have  been  compelled  to  look  up  the  genealogy  of  this  branch 
dc  novo.  The  investigation  has  been  a  protracted  and  laborious 
one.  P'amily  records,  court  and  probate  records  have  been 
searched,  moss-grown  epitaphs  have  been  deciphered,  family 
histories  have  been  consulted,  hundreds  of  letters  have  been 
written,  and  the  memories  of  the  aged  have  been  explored,  in 
the  endeavor  to  obtain  facts  and  data  for  this  sketch.  In  a  word, 
no  pains  nor  expense  within  reasonable  limits  has  been  spared  in 
our  undertaking. 

And  the  following  pages  represent  the  net  results  of  our 
inquiries  and  investigations.  .While  we  lay  no  claim  to  absolute 
accuracy  in  every  instance,  we  believe  that  we  have  attained  a 
reasonable  degree  of  certainty. 

It  is  believed  that  the  Pipers  of  Great  Britain  and  America 
are  descended  from  Magnus  Piper,  of  Neustadt,  whose  ancestors 
were  from  Liibeck,  Germany.  Iknke,  in  his  Armory,  mentions 
seven  families  of  Pipers,  in  various  counties  of  luigland,  who 
have  the  legal  right  to  bear  a  coat  of  arms. 

One  of  the  families,  the  Culliton  family  —  so-called  from  the 
town  of  that  name  in  the  County  of  Devonshire  —  is  of  special 


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interest  to  us,  as  will  be  seen  later.  The  "coat  of  arms  "  borne 
by  this  family  is  thus  given  by  Burke:  "Quarterly,  embattled 
gold  and  -ermine,  over  all  an  eagle  displayed  sable,  quartering 
azure,  two  chevrons  gold."  And  the  motto  is,  Feroci  fortior, 
"  More  brave  than  fierce." 

The  "crest"  of  this  family  is  thus  given  by  Fairbairn  on 
"Crests"  (Fox-Davies'  revision),  p.  358,  "A  cubit  arm  encircled 
with  a  wreath  of  laurel  ppr.,  holding  in  the  hand  a  boar's  head 
fesseways  erased  sa."     Motto,  the  same  as  given  above. 

This  Culliton  family  seems  to  have  been  prolific  in  soldiers, 
several  members  of  it  having  attained  military  distinction. 

It  is  believed  that  the  ancestor  of  the  Pipers  in  America  was 
connected  with  this  family  ;  at  all  events  he  hailed  from  the 
County  of  Devonshire. 

FIRST   GENERATION 

Nathaxiel  Piper,  founder  of  the  family  in  this  country, 
was  born  in  England  about  1630.  He  came  directly  from  Dart- 
mouth, in  Devonshire,  and  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  as  early  as 
1653.  He  became  a  land-holder  in  that  town  and  vicinity,  and 
died  in  1676.  His  wife's  first  name  has  come  down  to  us,  but 
her  maiden  name  is  unknown. 

After  her  husband's  decease,  she  married  Ezekiel  Woodward, 
of  Wenham,  Mass.,  and  probably  died  in  that  town. 

SECOND  GENERATION. 

Nathaniel  Piper  married  Sarah  . 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Sarah,  b.  about  1656;  d.  . 

Nathaniel,  b.  1658;  d.  about  1689. 
Mary,  b.  1660  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

Josiah,  b.  1661 ;  d.  . 

John,  b.  1663  ;    m.   Lydia ;    d.  probably  in   Wenham, 

Mass. 

Mary,  b.  1664  ;  d.  . 


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Thomas,  b.  Nov.  26,  1666;  m.  Grace  Hawley,  of  Wenham, 
on  Nov.  21,  1692  ;  removed  to  Stratham,  X.  H.,  as  appears,  where 
he  and  his  wife  died. 

Margaret,  b.  1668;  m.  Tristram  Greenleaf ;  d.  . 

Samuel,  b.  1670  ;  m.  Abigail  Church  ;  removed  to  Stratham, 
N.  H. ;  d.  in  1747. 

Jonathan,  b.  in  Ipswich,  in  1672  ;  d.  in  Concord,  Mass.,  in 
1752.  He  married  (1st)  Sarah  Leach,  and  (2d)  Alice  Darbey. 
The  early  records  of  Concord  mention  some  thirty  or  more 
persons  bearing  the  name  of  Piper. 

William,  probably  b.  in  1674  ;  d.  in  childhood. 

THIRD    GI':N1':RATI0N. 

Thomas  Pii'I.k,  m.  Cirace  Ilawley. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Thomas,  b.  in  Wenham.  Alass.,  Nov.  17,  1697  ;  ^^-  i"  Stratham. 
N.  H. 

Nathaniel,  b.  in  Wenham,  Jan.  22,  1701  ;  d.  in  Stratham, 
Nov.  26,  1778. 

Patience,  b.  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Feb.  25,  1703  ;  d . 

S.AMUEL  Piper,  b.  in  Ipswich,  June  12,  1670  ;  m.  Abigail 
Church,  April  23,  1694.  They  removed  to  Stratham,  N.  H., 
where  he  died  Oct.  31,  1747.  He  held  several  offices  in  the 
town. 

THEIR    children. 

Samuel,  b.  in  Ipswich  in  1701.  He  married  Jane  Cate,  and 
lived  in  Stratham,  X.  11,.  till  1785,  when  he  removed  to  Loudon, 
N.  IL,  where  he  died  about  1788.  This  couple  had  four 
children,  one  of  whom,  Jonathan,  was  the  father  of  Elder  Noah" 
Piper  of  Stratham,  and  of  John  L.  Piper,  later  of  Wolfeboro' ;  and 
another  was  Elisha  Piper,  born  in  Stratham  in  1746,  but  who  later 
removed  to  Parsonstjcld.  Me.,  where  he  was  one  of  the  j)ioneers 
and  an  influential  citizen  of  that  town.  I'^irther  particulars  may 
be  seen  in  Dearborn's  History  of  Parsonstield,  and  iiv  Horace 
Piper's  Genealogy  of  IClisha  Piper,  pp.  16-20. 


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FOURTH    GKNKRATION. 
Nathaniel  Pii>ek,  m.  Hannah  (Goss?). 

THEIR    CIIIEDHEN. 

Nathaniel  Piper,  grandson  of  NATHANIEL,  the  emigrant, 
b.  in  Wenham,  Mass.,  Jan.  22,  1701,  d.  in  Stratham,  N.  H.,  Nov. 
26,  1778.  From  the  best  information  to  be  gathered  from  the 
Probate  records  of  Exeter,  and  other  sources,  I  am  led  to  con- 
jecture that  his  wife's  maiden  name  was  Hannah  Goss.  It 
appears  that  Nathaniel  lived  and  died  in  Stratham,  and  held 
town  ofifices  there.  Several  of  his  sons  went  to  Pembroke,  then 
called  "  Suncook,"  N.  H.  After  his  decease,  his  widow  appears 
to  have  gone  to  Pembroke,  to  live  with  her  children.  In  her 
will,  dated  Dec.  18,  1779,  and  probated  Jan.  26,  1780,  she  men- 
tions the  following  children  : 

Daughters — Martha  Thurston,  Hannah  Goss. 

Sons — Thomas,  Gideon,  William,  Benjamin  (deceased),  and 
Nathaniel,  or  Nathan  (for  the  two  names  seem  to  have  been 
used  indifferently).  Nathan  was  made  sole  executor  of  her 
estate.  On  Jan.  12,  1779,  this  same  Nathaniel  Piper  of  Pem- 
broke had  been  appointed  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Nathaniel 
Piper,  late  of  Stratham — his  father,  beyond  any  reasonable  doubt. 

As  to  several  of  the  children  above  named,  of  Nathaniel 
and  Hannah  Piper,  we  have  scant  information.  Of  the  daughters 
we  know  only  what  is  indicated  above.  The  meagerness  of  our 
knowledge  of  circumstances  and  dates  is  largely  due  to  the  fact 
that  the  records  at  Stratham,  the  home  of  the  Piper  family,  are 
scant  and  imperfect  ;  and  that,  as  we  are  credibly  informed,  the 
oldest  ecntctery  in  that  tcnvn  has  been  ploughed  ?ip,  and  the  tomb- 
stones earned  off  and  destroyed  !  Such  vandalism  deserves  the 
severest  condemnation. 

Thomas,  apparently  the  oldest  of  the  sons  of  Nathaniel 
and  Hannah,  was  born  about  1730,  or  possibly  a  little  earlier,  in 
Stratham,  and  died  in  Wolfeboro',  N.  H.,  late  in  1791.  He 
married,  about  1754,  Abigail,  daughter  of  David  and  Abigail 
Evans,  of  Concord,  N.  H.  The  younger  Abigail,  if  the  records 
are  correct,  with   her  brother   John,  was  born  Sept.   13,    1731. 


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Besides  the  twins,  the  couple  seem  to  have  had  no  other 
children.  In  May,  1746,  David  I'>ans  and  family  belonged  to 
the  garrison  at  the  house  of  Timothy  Walker,  Jr.  It  seems  that 
Mr.  I^vans  died  soon  after,  as,  in  May,  1749,  his  widow,  Abigail, 
re-appears  as  the  second  wife  of  Jacob  Shute.  By  him  she  had 
two  daughters,  both  of  whom  died  young. 

Another  David  Evans,  perhaps  son  of  the  foregoing  by  a 
first  wife,  was  Sergeant  in  Capt.  Joseph  Eastman's  Co.,  Col. 
Joseph  Blanchard's  Reg.,  raised  in  1755  for  the  expedition 
against  Crown  Point.  Thomas  Piper,  who  married  Abigail 
Evans,  served  in  the  same  regiment.  Sergeant  Evans  was  one  I 
of  Rogers'  Rangers,  and  was  in  the  terrible  fight  at  St.  Francis, 
to  be  mentioned  later.  His  statement  (preserved  in  Bouton's 
Histiiry--Q£_Concor(:l,  to  which  we  are  much  indebted,)  as  to  tTie" 
hardships  endured  by  the  soldiers,  through  fatigue,  hunger,  etc., 
while  on  the  homeward  march,  is  most  pathetic. 

The  tradition  concerning  the  first  named  Abigail  Evans  is 
sufficiently  curious.  It  is  that  her  maiden  name  was  Ann  Bruce 
(perhaps  "  Abby  Ann");  that  she  came  from  Wales,  and  was 
related  to  the  royal  Bruce  family  of  Scotland  ;  that  she  married 
(ist)  a  man  named  Alger  (then  pronounced  "Augur"),  who  was 
killed  by  the  Indians  ;  (2d)  an  Evans  ;  (3d)  a  Shute.  How  much 
of  truth  there  may  be  in  the  first  portion  of  this  tradition  we 
cannot  undertake  to  decide. 

(For  further  particulars  concerning  the  Alger,  Aulger,  or 
Augur  family,  see  Willis'  History  of  Portland,  pp.  197,  198. 
Note.) 

We  conjecture  that  the  ICvans  family  was  of  Welsh  origin. 
The  early  records  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  comprise  the  names  of  some 
forty  persons  bearing  this  surname,  there  spelled  "  Euenes."  We 
also  find  a  "William  Evins  "  among  the  early  settlers  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  as  far  back  as  1652. 

'I'hc  ICvans  family  suffered  severely  at  the  hands  of  the 
.savages.  Belknap  tells  us  that  at  Dover,  on  Sept.  15,  1725.  the 
Indians  killed  Benjamin  and  William  Evans,  and  knocked  down 
and  scalped  John,  who  successfully  feigned  death,  but  after- 
wards recovered,  and  survived  for  fifty  years.  The  savages  also 
carried  the  lad  Benjamin,  Jr.,  into  captivity. 


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[With  reference  to  the  fight  at  St.  Francis  above  mentioned, 
this  is  to  be  noted  :  This  village  was  the  headquarters  of  the 
tribe  of  Indians  bearing  that  name,  who  were  the  most  cruel  and 
implacable  of  savage  foes.  These  demons  incarnate,  at  the 
instigation  of  those  treacherous  and  bloodthirsty  bigots,  the 
l*^-cnch  Jesuits  in  Canada,  committed  the  most  horrible  outrages 
upon  the  poor  settlers  in  New  England  for  many  years.  But  the 
day  of  retribution  came  at  last.  On  Oct.  3,  1759,  Rogers' 
Rangers,  some  two  hundred  in  number,  swooped  down  upon  this 
nest  of  devils,  and  utterly  exterminated  them.  In  this  bloody 
den,  the  Rangers  found  about  six  Jnmdrcd  scalps  of  mcn,ivovicii, 
and  childroi,  taken  from  victims  in  the  various  settlements  of 
New  England. 

The  reader  who  wishes  to  pursue  the  subject  further  is 
referred  to  the  pages  of  Belknap,  Bouton,  Drake,  Hubbard, 
Mather,  and  Rev.  John  Pike.J 

As  noted  above,  Thomas  Piper  rendered  faithful  and  patriotic 
service  as  a  soldier  in  the  "  French  and  Indian  War."  The 
records  in  the  Adjutant-General's  office  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  give 
Thomas  Piper's  name  in  the  list  of  the  ist  Co.  of  Col.  Joseph 
Blanchard's  Regiment,  "  raised  for  an  expedition  against  Crown 
Point  in  April,  1755 — for  which  the  Legislature  appropriated 
thirty  thousand  pounds." 

According  to  Belknap,  these  New  Hampshire  troops  acquitted 
themselves  with  great  bravery  and  fortitude,  inflicting  a  heavy 
loss  upon  the  combined  Canadians  and  savages  under  Baron 
Dieskau.  This  noted  victory  was  won  on  Sept.  8,  1755,  and  was 
followed  by  the  total  defeat  of  the  enemy,  and  the  capture  of  the 
Baron  himself.  So  valuable  were  the  services  of  the  New 
Hampshire  soldiers  as  scouts  during  this  campaign,  that  they 
were  almost  constantly  employed  in  this  manner. 

Thomas  Piper  above-mentioned  is,  however,  not  to  be  con- 
founded with  another  Thomas  Piper,  probably  a  younger  man, 
who  went  from  Newmarket  to  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  about  the 
year  1762,  and  became  one  of  the  early  settlers  and  landed  pro- 
prietors of  the  latter  townshij).  The  last-named  Thomas  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  1775  to  1778;  and  on  Feb.  15,  1778, 
he  was  "transferred  to  His  Excellency's  Guard."      The  army 


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records  distinctly  specify  that  it  was  the  Gilmanton  Thomas  to 
whom  this  honor  was  accorded.  This  man  had  two  sons  and  a 
daughter  who  settled  with  him  in  Gilmanton.  His  widow  out- 
lived him  some  years,  and  married  Joseph  Huckins  in  1791. 

What  relationship,  if  any,  existed  between  the  two  Thomases 
does  not  appear. 

In  what  year  our  Thomas  removed  from  his  native  Stratham 
to  Pembroke  is  not  known,  but  probably  about  the  year  1762,  at 
which  date  his  brother  Gideon  made  the  same  change  of 
residence. 

Mr.  Benjamin  Y.  Piper,  South  Lee,  N.  H.,  aged  83,  under- 
stands that  his  father,  Adjutant  John,  was  born  in  Stratham. 
His  birth  occurred  in  1760;  so  that,  at  that  date,  the  family  of 
Thomas  had  apparently  not  as  yet  removed  to  Pembroke.  It 
appears  that  both  Thomas  and  Gideon  were  married  before 
leaving  their  native  town,  Stratham. 

In  the  early  part  of  1768,  Thomas  seems  to  have  removed 
to  Wolfeboro',  where  he  lived  till  his  decease,  as  above  stated. 

In  August  of  that  year,  he  bought,  of  Paul  March  of  Ports- 
mouth, what  was  afterwards  known  as  the  "  Squire  Meader 
place,"  about  half  a  mile  north  of  Wolfeboro'  Bridge,  where  he 
lived  for  some  two  years.  He  sold  this  to  Ebenezer  Meader, 
and  purchased  later  the  "  Fullerton  place,"  on  the  right  hand 
side  of  the  road  leading  from  "Goose  Corner,"  over  "Mason's 
hill,"  to  Tuftonboro'.      Here  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days. 

He  was  the  fust  miller  in  the  town,  and  had  a  grist-mill  at 
what  was  afterwards  known  as  "  Mill  Village."  On  account  of 
the  value  of  his  services  as  miller,  he  was  exempted  from  military 
duty  in  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

In  1788,  he  and  his  son,  David,  purchased  pews  which  the 
town  sold  in  the  meeting-house  which  had  just  been  built  at  the 
expense  of  the  public. 

Thomas  Piper  was  an  influential  and  respected  citi/cii  ni 
Wolfeboro',  and  held  several  town  offices.  Although  the  citizens 
felt  that  they  could  not  spare  their  miller,  yet,  as  we  shall  see, 
three  of  his  sons,  Thomas,  David  and  John,  served  their  country 
in  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 


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Before  pursuing  further  the  history  of  Thomas,  from  whom 
I  am  descended,  I  will  intcrru])t  the  narrative,  and  give  the 
rather  meager  information,  which  I  have  been  able  to  glean, 
concerning  his  brothers  and  sisters. 

As  to  the  sisters,  we  only  know,  as  noted  above,  that  Martha 
married  a  Thurston,  and  Hannah  a  Goss.  Concerning  them,  we 
have  no  other  information.  Of  the  brothers,  our  knowledge  is 
somewhat  less  scant. 

Gideon  Piper,  apparently  the  second  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Hannah,  was  born  in  Stratham,  N.  H.,  Sept.  7,  1741,  and  died  in 
Meredith,  May  18,  18 16.  He  moved  from  Stratham  to  Pembroke 
in  1762.  Here  his  children  were  born.  About  1783,  he  moved 
to  Meredith,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days.  He 
cleared  a  farm,  and  made  a  home  for  himself,  on  a  hill  overlooking 
North  Sanbornton.  In  1781,  before  leaving  Pembroke,  he  was 
drafted  for  military  service  by  Capt.  Head,  as  the  records  show. 

Gideon  m.  (i)  Mrs.  Rachel  (Sanborn)  Griffith,  Aug.  4,  1761  ; 
(2)  Anna  Chandler,  in  1799;  (3)  Betsey  Merrill,  in  1810.  By 
his  first  wife,  he  had  five  children  : — 

Abigail,  b.  Oct.  28,  1762;  m.  William  Chase;  had  six 
children. 

Anna,  b.  March  24,  1765  ;  d.  in  Meredith,  unmarried,  Sept. 
6,  1845. 

Elisha,  b.  May  2,  1768;  d.  June  30,  1834.  He  was  Captain 
of  militia;  m.  (i)  Mary  Folsom ;  (2)  Molly  Plumer.  He  was 
father  of  seven  children. 

Daniel,  b.  Aug.  25,  1771  ;  d.  in  Meredith  April  i,  18 14.  He 
married  Hannah  Piper  of  Holderness,  N.  H. 

Sarah,  b.  Feb.  2=;,  1774;  m.  Nathaniel  Piper;  moved  to 
Holderness,  and  died  there. 

[The  above  facts  pertaining  to  Gideon  and  his  posterity  are 
gathered  largely  from  Runnells'  History  of  Sanbornton,  N.  H., 
Vol.  H.,  pp.  572-78.] 

Of  William,  another  son  of  the  Stratham  Nathaniel,  I  find 
no  further  trace.  Presumably  he  lived  and  died  m  Stratham. 
Judging  from  his  mother's  will,  he  was  alive  in  Dec,  1779. 


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Benjamin,  a  fourth  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah,  died  in 
Stratham  previous  to  Jan.  8,  1779,  as  appears  from  the  probate 
records,  tlis  mother's  will  mentions  his  "heirs,"  but  does  not 
give  their  names. 

Nathaniel,  or  Nathan,  fifth  son  of  the  same  couple,  seems 
to  have  moved  to  Pembroke,  where  he  died  previous  to  Feb.  20, 
1788,  at  which  date  letters  of  administration  were  issued  to  his 
widow,  Rachel  Piper.  This  Nathaniel  had  a  son,  Nathaniel,  Jr. 
In  1767,  Nathaniel  Piper,  Sr.,  and  Nathaniel  Piper,  with  others, 
sent  a  petition  from  "  Pembrook  "  to  the  Legislature  praying  for 
the  appointment  of  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  In  1782,  a  similar 
petition  bears,  in  addition,  the  name  of  Gideon  Piper.  In  this 
case,  one  of  the  Nathaniels  writes  his  name  as  "  Nathan  Piper," 
simply.  In  1774,  Benj.  Piper,  "Nath'l  Piper,"  and  "Nathaniel 
Pyper,"  again  petition  the  Legislature.  And,  in  1769,  Nathaniel 
Piper,  of  Pembroke,  deeded  to  his  son  Nathaniel  a  certain  tract 
of  land  in  that  tjwn. 

In  Walker's  History  of  Pembroke,  I.  137,  the  names  of 
Benjamin,  Gideon,  Nathaniel,  and  Samuel  Piper  are  mentioned 
as  those  of  Pembroke  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

We  will  now  return  from  our  digression,  and  resume  the 
history  of  our  ancestor,  Thomas  Piper,  and  his  family. 

FIFTH  GENERATION. 

Thomas  Piper  married  Abigail  Evans. 

THKIR    CHILDRKN. 

Thomas,  b.  April  4,  1756  ;  d.  Dec.  24,  1787. 

David,  b.  P'eb.  8,  1758  ;  d.  . 

John,  b.  Jan.  17,  1760;  d.  April  20,  1830. 

Mary,  b.  May  30,  1 762  ;  d.  . 

Susy,  b.  Jan.  17,  1765  ;  d. . 

Lyford,  b.  April  20,  1766  ;  d.  when  {piite  young. 
Samuel  G.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1771  ;  d.  June  2,  1854. 
Timothy,  b.  Jan.  21,  1774;  d.  April  27,  KS51. 


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SIXTH    GENERATION. 

Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  (Evans)  Piper,  married 
-,  and  died,  it  is  said,  at  the  age  of  31,  shortly  after 


his  return  from  the  war.  In  the  Revolutionary  Army,  ist  Co., 
Col.  Scammell's  Regiment,  1777-79,  I  find  the  names  of  Thomas, 
David,  and  John  Piper, — presumably  the  three  brothers.  On 
March  15,  1779,  Maj.  Caleb  Gibbs'  Corps  of  Guards  comprised 
Thomas  Piper  of  "  Walsborough  "  (VVolfeborough). 

I  conjecture  that  this  Thomas  married  a  daughter  of  P2zekiel 
Dimond  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  four  of  whose  sons  served  in  the 
army  of  the  patriots. 

There  is  a  tradition  that  a  son  of  Thomas,  named  Dimond 
Piper,  lost  his  life  in  the  late  Rebellion,  but  more  probably  it  was 
a  grandson,  unless,  indeed,  the  war  referred  to  was  that  of  1812. 

David,  another  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Piper,  married 
Molly  Edmunds,  sister  of  the  late  Joseph  Edmunds  of  Wolfe- 
boro',  N.  H.     David  lived  and  died  in  that  town. 

They  had  three  daughters — Sally,  Mary,  and  Nabby.  The 
first  died  unmarried  ;.  Mary  married  William  Clark,  and  Nabby 
his  brother,  Robert  Clark.  We  believe  that  neither  couple  had 
children.  David,  as  stated  above,  served  in  the  army  during  the 
Revolution.  In  1776,  David  and  his  brother  John  were  in  Capt. 
Jas.  Gray's  Co.,  Col.  Alexander  Scammell's  Regiment  ;  and,  in 
1781,  David  was  Sergeant  in  Capt.  Jacob  Smith's  Co.  In  1777, 
David  was  Corporal  in  the  Train  Band  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  John  Sinclair. 

In  1792,  David  Piper  was  a  member  of  the  committee  chosen 
by  the  town  to  invite  Rev.  Ebenezer  Allen  to  become  pastor,  — 
"  Old  Parson  Allen,"  as  we  remember  hearing  aged  people  des- 
ignate him. 

In  January  of  the  same  year,  David  was  appointed  adminis- 
trator of  the  estate  of  his  father,  the  late  Thomas  Piper  of 
Wolfeboro'. 

John,  brother  of  David,  and  commonly  styled  "Adjutant 
Piper,"  enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  at  the  age  of  16, 
and,  with  his  brothers,  Thomas  and  David,  served  during  the 
war.     After  his  return  from  the  army,  he   lived  in  Wolfeboro' 


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till  1806,  when  he  removed  to  Tuftonboro',  where  he  died  in  1830, 
By  two  marriages,  he  became  the  father  of  the  truly  patriarchal 
number  of  21  children — 8  sons  and  13  daughters.  Of  this  large 
family,  ig  afterward  married,  and  all  but  two  were  present  at 
their  father's  funeral. 

He  married  (i)  Jemima,  daughter  of  James  Mersey  of  New- 
market, N.  H.,  born  in  1762,  died  Feb.  6,  1803.  After  her 
decease,  he  married  a  second  time,  as  we  have  noted  later. 

John  and  Jemima  were  married  Jan.  12,  1783.  They  had  10 
children — 5  sons  and  5  daughters  —  as  follows: — 


John,  Jr.,  b.  Aug.  i,  1783  ;  d. . 

Betsey,  b.  iMay  15,  1785  ;  d.  Jan.  29,  1803. 

James,  b.  March  14,  1787  ;  d. . 

Thomas,  b.  March  29,  1789  ;  d. . 

Oilman,  b.  Feb.  26,  1791  ;  d. . 

William,  b.  Jan.  24,  1793  ;  d. . 

Nancy,  b.  Oct.  11,  1794;  d. . 

Mary,  b.  May  2,  1797  ;  d. . 


Abigail,  b.  May  26,  1799;  d. . 

Jemima  H.,  b.  Jan.  24,  1803  ;  d. . 

The  wife  died  Feb.  6,  1803. 

John  Pipf.k,  married  (2)  Anna  Young,  born  in  W'olfeboro', 
Aug.  25,   1777.     Marriage  on  Jan.  26,  1804. 

To  this  couple  were  born  1 1  children — 3  sons  and  8  daugh- 
ters— as  follows  :— 

Phoebe  A.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1X04;  d. . 

Paul  W„  b.  Sept.  17,  1805  ;  d.  Jan.  12,  1854. 
Susan  W„  b.  Oct.  26,  1806;  d.  Nov  26,  1896. 
Betsey  A„  b.  Jan.  8,  1808  ;  d.  June  24,  1865. 
Lucinda  C„  b.  July  24,  1809;  d.  July,  1891. 
Napoleon  B„  b.  Nov.  28,  1810;  d.  June  4,  1840. 
Martha  W.,b.  Feb.  6,  181 2. 
Sally  R,  1).  May  20,  181 3. 

Patience  C,  b.  Oct.  15,  1814  ;  d.  Sept.  13,  1853. 
Benjamin  Y„  b.  April  29,  1816. 
Vienna  E„  b.  Jan.  iG,  1S21. 


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Of  these  we  note  the  following  particulars  : — 

John  Piper,  Jr.,  familiarly  known  in  later  years  as  "  Squire 
Jack,"  m.  Hannah    Meader,  daughter  of   Ebenezer   Meader,  of 

Wolfcboro'.      Children — Samuel  Joy,  b.  ;  d.  ;  John 

Hamilton,  b. ;  d. ;  Charles,  b. . 

l^ETSEV,  d.  in  childhood. 

James,  m.  Dolly  Tibbetts,  sister  of  Thomas'  wife,  and 
daughter  of  Dr.  Levi  Tibbetts.  Children — Samuel  Blake, 
Hannah,  Levi  T.,  Almina,  John  and  Asa  (twins),  Lucy. 

Thomas,  m.  Sally  Tibbetts.  Children  —  Elmira,  Burley,  Asa, 
and  Edith.  The  family  removed  from  Tuftonboro'  to  Newport, 
Me. 

Oilman,  m.  Eliza  Wiggin,  one  of  a  family  of  i6  brothers 
and  sisters,  all  born  of  one  mother.  Children  —  Richard,  Andrew, 
Ann,  Dearborn,  Mary. 

William,  m.  Rebecca  Mallard.  Children — Lavina,  Jemima, 
Caroline,  Harrison,  Martha,  Helen,  Laura  Ann,  Elbridge,  Frances, 

Nancy,  m.  Jeremiah  Foss.  Children  —  Thomas,  William, 
Fannie,  John,  Mary,  Augustus,  Nancy, 

Mary,  m.  Mark  Hersey  of  Sanbornton.     Children  —  None. 

Abigail,  m.  William  Fullerton  of  Wolfeboro'.  Children  — 
Augustine,  Harrison,  Martha,  and  Jemima,  with  two  others  whose 
names  are  not  known  to  me. 

Jemima  H.,  m.  (ist)  Samuel  Leavitt  ;  (2d)  William  W. 
Blaisdell.  Children  by  first  marriage  — Woodbury,  John  S.,  Martha, 
Ann,  Jemima  j  by  second  marriage  —  Dana,  Charles,  Clara, 

Phebe  a.,  m.  Steph.  Pendergast.     Children  —  None. 

Paul  W.,  m.  Eliza  Jane  Dehart,  of  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 
Children  —  One  son,  John  Randolph,  now  of  Morristown,  N.  J. 

Susan  W.,  m.  Joseph  Ayers.     Children  — -Three  in  number. 

Betsey  Ann,  m.  Oliver  Sanborn.  Children  —  Four  in 
number. 

LuciNDA  C,  m.  (ist)  Charles  Pinkham  ;  (2d)  Abel  Haley. 
Children,  by  first  marriage  —  Phebe. 

Napoleon  B.,  d,  at  St.  Mark,  West  Plorida,  unmarried. 

Martha  W.,  m.  Nathaniel  Mason,  March  31,  1833.  Chil- 
dren —  Olivia,  m.  Charles  H.  Hersey,  of  Wolfboro'. 

Sarah  H.,  m.  Levi  T.  Hersey.     Children  —  None. 


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Patience  C,  m.  Asa  Allen.     Children — None. 

Benjamin  Y.,  m.  (i)  Hannah  Evans;  (2)  Sarah  Evans. 
Children — Six,  of  whom  Hon.  Charles  F,  Piper  of  Wolfcboro", 
is  one. 

Vienna  E.,  m.  Lyman  Allen.     Children  —  Eight  in  number. 

(I  have  failed  to  get  the  names  of  some  of  the  grand-children 
of  Adjutant  Piper.     I  regret  the  failure.) 

As  showing  his  unquenched  martial  spirit,  John  Piper, 
although  over  50  years  of  age,  raised  a  company  of  soldiers  for 
the  War  of  1812,  and  was  appointed  Adjutant ;  but  the  war  closed 
before  he  had  opportunity  for  actual  service  a  second  time  in  the 
field. 

All  that  was  mortal  of  the  old  Revolutionary  veteran  rests 
in  the  Tibbetts  cemetery,  a  quarter  of  a  mile  south  of  Tuftonboro' 
Centre. 

Mary  Piper,  sister  of  David  and  Adj.  John,  married  John 
Shorey,  who  came  to  W'olfeboro'  in  1796.  He  bought  of  his 
mother-in-law,  Widow  Abigail  Piper,  a  tract  of  land  in  the  "  Pine 
Hill"  neighborhood,  where  he  and  his  descendants  lived  for 
many  years.     He  had  been  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

This  couple  had  four  children  — Lyford  and  Joseph,  Sally  and 
Mary.     Of  these  latter  children,  we  note  that 

Lyford  Shorey  married  (ist)  Mercy  Wiggiii,  sister  of  Mrs. 
Oilman  Piper,  and  Mrs.  Gliomas  Wiggin  ;  (2d)  Betsey  Willey. 
By  the  first  marriage  there  were  four  children  —  James,  Samuel, 
Joseph,  and  Ruth.     Lyford  died  a  few  years  since  at  the  age  of  95. 

Joseph  Shorey,  brother  of  Lyford,  made  and  set  up  the  old 
watering-trough,  still  in  existence  after  the  lapse  of  a  century,  by 
the  roadside  not  far  from  the  foot  of  "  Mason's  Hill." 

Mary  Shorey,  a  sister,  is  said  to  have  married  a  Leary,  and 
to  have  removed  to  Wells,  Me. 

Sally  Shorey,  the  other  sister  of  Lyford  and  Joseph,  m. 
Samuel  W.,  oldest  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Wiggin)  Mersey, 
b.  Nov.  22,  1772. 

[For  some  further  particulars  concerning  the  Hcrsey  family, 
see  under  "  Neal  Family."] 


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Susie,  or  Sukev  Piper,  another  sister  of  David  and  John,  m. 
(i)  Paul  Wiggin  ;  (2)  Benjamin  Trafton.  I  have  been  unable  to 
ascertain  where  these  persons  lived,  and  whether  they  left 
children  ;  also,  any  further  particulars  concerning  them. 

Lyford  Piper,  a  brother,  seems  to  have  died  early. 

Samuel  G.  Piper,  "Capt.  Samuel,"  as  he  was  styled,  another 
brother,  was  born  in  Wolfeboro',  but  removed  to  Stewarts- 
town,  N.  H.,  where  he  spent  his  later  years,  and  died.  He  was 
a  small,  wiry  man,  and,  in  early  life,  a  noted  wrestler.  His  wife 
was  a  remarkably  muscular  and  athletic  woman.  I  have  it  on 
good  authority  that  she  would  sometimes,  in  sport,  turn  her  wiry 
little  husband  over  her  knee,  and  spank  him  handsomely,  despite 
his  efforts  and  struggles  to  escape. 

Samuel  G.,  m.,  on  Oct.  9,  1794,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Tris- 
tram Copp,  and  sister  of  the  late  Moses  Copp,  of  Tuftonboro', 
N.  H.  She  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Me.,  on  Aug.  10,  1769,  and 
died  in  Stewartstown  on  April  i,  1857. 

This  couple  had  issue  as  follows  :  — 

Patty  (Martha),  b.  July  i,  1795  ;  d.  March  14,  1864. 

Thomas,  b.  May  8,  1798;  d.  P^eb.  3,  1873. 

Polly  (Mary),  b.  May  ir,  1801  ;  (living  in  1897). 

Sukey  (Susan),  b.  August  6,  1803 ;  d.  in  infancy  (.'). 

Orbit,  b.  March  13,  1805;  d.  . 

Susan,  b.  Nov.  7,  1807;  d.  March  i,  1833. 

Josephine,  b.  March  18,  1810;  cl.  August  5,  1884. 

As  to  these  sons  and  daughters  we  note  as  follows  :  — 

Patty  Piper  and  Nathaniel  Chase  were  married  Dec.  3, 
1816.  Children  —George  W.,  b.  April  16,  1818;  Martha,  b.  P^eb. 
24,  1824;  Emily,  b.  Oct.  18,  1829;  Mary,  b.  Oct.  3,  1835  ;  William 
Tm  b.  Jan.  6,  1840. 

Thomas  Piper,    m. .      Children  —  "William, 

b.  Dec.  IS,  1825  ;  Loring  G.,  b.  1^'eb.  28,  1828;  Emily  W.,  b.  June 
5,  1830  ;  Hiram,  b.  July  9,  1832  ;  Esther  P.,  b.  May  i,  1837  ;  Arvilla, 
b.  Nov.  27,  1839. 

Polly  Piper  and  French  Hall  were  married  April  19,  1821. 
Children  — Malvina,  b.  Oct.  24,  1822;  Albert  C,  b.  Jan.  22,  1824; 
Samuel  G„  b.  March  30,  1826  ;  Hiram,  b.  March  12,  1829  ;  Marietta, 


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b.  July  7,  1833  ;  Susan  R„  b.  April   13,  1835  ;  Caroline  M,.  b.  Jan. 
14,  1839;  JohivP.,  b.  May  ^o,  1843  ;  Martha  A.,  b.  May  2,  1845. 

Slsax  Piper  and  Ploward  Blodgctt  were  married  Sept.  7, 
1826.  Children  —  Edwin  H„  b.  Aug.  5,  1827;  Cyrus  R.,  b.  April 
18,  1829;  JohnP,,  b.  Feb.  11,  1831  ;  William  S.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1833. 
J-osEiMUXK  Piper  and  Thomas  B.  Blodgett  were  married  May 
18,  1833.  Children  — Milton,  b.  P^eb.  2,  1834;  Susan,  b.  May  13, 
1836;  Ann  M„  b.  Nov.  22,  1838;  Thomas  B„  b.  Sept.  29,  1842; 
Frank,  b.  May  19,  1846;  Isabel,  b.  July  12,  1848;  Alice,  b.  June 
12,  1855. 

[It  will  doubtless  be  a  matter  of  interest  to  some  readers  to 
add  that  Moses  Copp  above-mentioned,  the  brother-in-law  of 
Capt.  Samuel  G.  Piper,  with  his  three  brothers,  William,  Jonathan, 
and  Tristram  Copp,  came  to  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  from  Lebanon, 
Me.,  in  1791.  In  1795  Capt.  Piper  and  Moses  Copp  petitioned  the 
General  Court,  then  in  session  at  Hanover,  N.  H.,  for  the  incor- 
poration of  Tuftonboro'.  The  request  was  granted,  and  the  Act 
of  Incorporation  was  approved  Dec.  17,  179S,  by  the  then  Gov- 
ernor, John  Taylor  Gilman. 

The  first  town  meeting  was  held  on  March  14,  1796,  at  the 
house  of  the  late  William  Copp.] 

TiMOTiiv,  youngest  child  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  (Fvans) 
Piper,  married  Hannah  Neal,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
(Tarleton)  Neal,  on  Jan.  21,  1800. 

Children  as  follows  : — 

David,  b.  Nov.  19,  1800;  d.  Sept.  13,  1864. 

Samuel,  b.  Aug.  6,  1802  ;  d.  Dec.  20,  1884. 

Hannah,  b.  March  19,  1804  ;  d.  June  27,  1888. 

Elizabeth  S.,  b.  May  20,  1806;  d.  Sept   8,  1844. 

Mary  Neal,  b.  April  10,  1808  ;  d.  June  7,  1883. 

Abigail,  b.  May  15,  18 10. 

Harriet  Melissa,  b.  April  2,  1812  ;  d.  Dec.  17,  1859. 

Avans  (formerly  Evans),  b.  /\pril  2,  1814;  cl.  Aug.   22,    \H^(^. 

Joshua  N„  b.  Sept.  12,  18 16. 

Ruth  B.,  b.  ¥ch.  28,  1819  ;  d.  Nov.  23,  1870. 

Sarah  Ann,  b.  Feb.  28,  18 19;  d.  May  31,  1898. 

Joseph  Banficld.  b.  May  17,  1822;  d.  Feb.  13,  1894. 

Mark  Fernald,  b.  Jan.  17,  1825. 


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Grandfather  Timothy  was  a  large,  thick-set  man,  of  great 
muscular  strength.  Some  of  his  athletic  feats,  in  his  younger 
days,  are  still  spoken  of.  For  example,  it  is  reported  that  he 
could  stand  in  a  hogshead,  and  jump  squarely  out  of  it,  without 
touching  it  with  his  hands  at  all. 

Of  his  13  children,  the  average  weight  was  not  far  from  200 
pounds.  All  lived  to  mature  years,  and  all  but  one  married,  and 
reared  families. 

Grandfather  was  a  "mighty  hunter"  in  his  day.  Many  a 
bear,  wild  cat,  and  other  "varmint "  of  the  forest  fell  a  victim  to 
his  unerring  aim.  His  favorite  weapons  were  the  "little  gun," 
and  the  "old  buccaneer"  —  an  immense  flint-lock  musket,  with  a 
barrel  nearly  or  quite  six  feet  in  length.  Needless  to  say  that  the 
hunter  required  great  strength,  and  steadiness  of  nerve,  in  order  to 
shoot  successfully  with  the  giant  gun,  at  arm's  length.  Doubt- 
less the  "old  buccaneer"  had  a  history,  if  one  could  but  know 
it.     The  gun  is  still  in  the  possession  of  a  member  of  the  family. 

Besides  being  possessed  of  great  mechanical  ingenuity, 
Grandfather  was  skilled  in  the  "  healing  art,"  curing  diseases  of 
various  kinds  by  means  of  nature's  own  simples  —  roots  and 
herbs.  He  died  April  27,  185 1.  His  excellent  wife,  Hannah 
(Neal)  Piper,  was  born  March  22,  1781,  dying  August  23,  1865. 

The  writer  well  remembers  hearing  Grandmother  Hannah 
tell  of  having  seen  Gen.  Washington  when  he  visited  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  in  1789.  She  was  then  some  eight  and  one-half  years 
of  age.  The  General  arrived  in  that  city  on  Oct.  30th  of  that 
year,  and,  while  in  that  vicinity,  visited  Greenland  and  Kittery. 
Grandmother  used  to  tell  a  humorous  story  of  a  good  woman  in 
the  city,  who  happened  to  be  barefoot  at  the  moment  she  heard 
the  people  shout  that  "  Gen.  Washington  is  passing  by"  !  She 
was  bound  to  see  the  "  Father  of  his  Country,"  and  she  rushed  to 
the  door  partially  attired  as  she  was.  Just  as  he  passed  her  door, 
she  made  a  very  low  and  prolonged  curtsey  which  effectually 
concealed  her  naked  pedal  extremities.  So  much  for  feminine 
ingenuity. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION. 

David  Piper  and  Sally  Haley,  daughter  of  William  and 
Lois  (Ricker)  Haley,  were  married  on ,  1820. 


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Children  : — 

Nancy  Neal,  b.  Oct.  22,  1820;  d.  July  24,  1882  ;  m.  Richard 
B.  Ncal,  April  7,  1842.  Three  children.  (See  further  under 
"Neal  Family.") 

Eliza  Wharton,  b.  March  12,  1823  ;  d.  in  childhood. 

Louisa,  b.  June  15,  1829  ;  d.  in  childhood. 

Enoch  Colby,  b.  Ai)ril  i,  1831  ;  Sergeant  Co.  K,  12th  Reg., 
N.  H.  v.,  wounded  twice  in  battle  ;  d.  Aug.  8,  1864. 

Everett  Thurston,  b.  Jan.  29,  1833  ;  d.  in  childhood. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  April  12,  1837  ;  d. ;  m.  (i.st)  Newton 

Lovering;  (2d)  James  Howard.  Children,  by  i.st  marriage,  Frank 
S.  (M.  D.)  and  Jonas  V. 

David  Everett,  b.  Dec.  3,  1839;  m.  Nov.  21,  1861,  Anna 
Elizabeth  Piper  (b.  Oct.  22,  1840;  d.  Dec.  22,  1886).  Children  — 
Etta  Augusta,  b.  July  12,  1863;  Cora  Estella,  b.  July  2,  1873; 
Alonzo,  b.  Aug.  17,  1875,  d.  Aug.  24,  1876;  John  Franklin,  b. 
Nov.  7,  18S0. 

Samuel  Piper,  m.  Elsie  Maley,  daughter  of  W  illiam  and 
Lois  (Ricker)  Haley,  Nov.  6,  1822. 

Children— Thatcher  William,  b.  May  9,  (824;  d.  Nov.  22. 
1893  ;  m.  Nancy  Allen.  Children  —  Marshall  \V.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1848  ; 
Fred  L.,  b.  Feb.  i,  1858.  Thatcher  was  a  well-known  preacher 
among  the  Adventists,  as  is  his  son,  Fred  L.  Marshall  is  a 
resident  of  l^rockton,  Mass. 

Asa  Morrison,  b.  March  8,   1827;  d.  July   13,   1894;  m.  (i) 

Rhoda  Ann  Perkins, ;  (2)  Mrs.  Jennie  M.  Warriner,  Nov. 

23,  1882.  Children,  by  first  m.,  Edwin  Perkins,  b.  July  18,  1854  ; 
m.  Jane  North  Roots,  Dec.  29,  1885.  Harry  Parker,  b.  Feb.  26, 
1857;  m.  Sue  North  Root.s,  May  17,  1881.  Children  of  Harry  P. 
and  Sue  N, —  Guernsey  Roots,  b.  Aug.  22.  1884;  Anna  North, 
b.  July  9,  1886. 

Harry  P.  has  aided  me  by  furnishing  genealogical  materials 
for  my  work.     Residence,  Mt.  X'ernon,  N.  Y. 

John  Colby,  b.  March  30,  1830  ;  d.  in  childhood. 

Samuel  Augustine,  b.  July  3,  1S35;  m.  (ist)  Annette  L. 
Drake,  Nov.  11,  1856;  (2d)  Abbie  Maria  Cunningham,  Jan.  i, 
1872.     Children    -by  first  m.,   lulwin   Drake,  b.  April   17.   i860; 


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by  2d  m.,  ICthel  Marion,  b.  Sept.  22,  1875  ;  Walter  Irviup^,  1\ 
Sept.  18,  1886.     Residence,  Newton  Upper  Falls,  Mass. 

Charles  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  2,  1839;  d.  Oct.  15,  1867. 

1  Ianxaii  Pii'icr  m.  Reuben  Stockbridge, .     Children  — 

John  FranKlin,  b. ;  d.  ;  Isaac  Alonzo,  b.  ;  d. 

.    l^oth  sons  died  unmarried.     The  parents  died  subsequent 

to  the  decease  of  the  sons. 

Elizabeth  Shekbukne  Piper  died  unmarried,  Sept.  8,  1844. 

Mary  Neal  Piper  was  married  to  John  Smith,  son  of 
William  and  Lois  (Ricker)  Haley,  Dec.  20,  1832.  To  this  couple 
were  born  six  children. 

(For  further  particulars,  see  "Haley  Family.") 

Abigail  Piper  was  married  to  Asa  Walker  (b.  1808,  d. 
1875),  son  of  Rev.  John  Walker,  about  183 1. 

Children :  — 

William  Henry,  b.  July  28,  1833  ;  d.  Oct.  8,  1853. 

Joshua  Mackenzie,  b.  Feb.,  1836;  d.  in  childhood. 

Harriet  Melissa,  b.  Dec.  9,  1838;  d.  in  childhood. 

Timothy  Bruce,  b.  Oct.  15,  1839;  d.  in  childhood. 

Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.  29,  1840;  d.  P'eb.  27,  1885;  m. 
Johnson. 

Albert   H.,  b.   May  17,  1845;    m.    (ist) (2d) 

.     Children  :     By  ist  m.  Horace;  by  2d  m.  a  daughter. 

Albert  H.  is  an  active  business  man,  and  an  earnest  temper- 
ance worker.     His  present  residence  is  Melvin  Village,  N.  H. 

Harriet  M.  Piper  m.  Isaac  S.  Lovering  about  1850. 

Children, —Lucy  Hannah,  b.  March  10,  1852;  m.  Robert 
Welden  Pierce  April  3,  1873.  Children, — Enid  Mabel,  b.  Jan.  18, 
1874;  Robert  Ernest,  b.  July  5,  1878,  d.  in  infancy;  Robert 
Lovering,  b.  Dec.  22,  1887  ;  Alma  Ernestine,  b.  July  23,  1890, 
d.  Aug.  5,  1891  ;  Harold  Kent,  b.  May  i,  1892.  Family  resi- 
dence, Providence,  R.  I. 

Mary  Abbie,  b.  1855  ;  m.  Jerome  Ivry  Goldthwaite  Jan.  27, 
1 88 1.  Mr.  Goldthwaite  is  in  business  in  Boston.  Residence, 
Somerville,  Mass. 

AvANS  Piper  m.  Mary  Ellen  Mahoney,  Sept.  27,  1840. 

Children,— Susan  Melissa,  b.  June  29,  1841  ;  d.  July  6,  1896  ; 
m.  James  Albert  Knight  P^eb.  13,  1870.     Children, — Mary  Ida,  b. 


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June  27,  1870,  d.  Oct.  27,  1871  ;  Albert  Avans,  b.  Oct.  17,  1S72  ; 
Piper,  b.  Oct.  19,  1877  ;  m.  Lena  AI.  Clark,  May  i,  1897. 

Martha  Elizabeth,  b.  Ai)ril  4,  1848  ;  m.  Francis  Henry  Rankin, 
March  30,  1873.  Children, —  Francis  Avans,  b.  Nov.  20,  1880.  d. 
March  14,  1882  ;  Henry  Irving,  b.  August  4,  1884;  infant  daughter 
d.  March  10,  1878. 

Mary  Ida  Ellen,  b.  June  24,  1856;  d.  July  9,  1863. 

I^'aniily  residence,  Centre  Lincolnville,  Me. 

Josiiu.\  Neal  Piper,  m.  (ist)  Martha  Young  ;  (2d)  Maria 
Judkins  ;  (3d)  Orra  Laporte. 

Children  : — By  ist  marriage. 

Nancy  Erilda,  b.  Dec.  26,  1840;  m.  J.  D.  Salvage,  Dec.  2. 
1863  ;  d.  Nov.  26,  1893. 

Albert  L,  b.  June  17,  1842;  ni.  in  Michigan. 

Children  :  — By  2d  marriage. 

Annie  Maria,  b.  Oct.  9,  1848  ;  m.  Will  K.  Keyes.  June  28,  1872. 

Children  : — By  3d  marriage. 

Ella  F„  b.  Feb.  17,  1852  ;  m.  James  S.   Lewis,  Dec.  1871. 

Lettie  A„  b.  l-^eb.  24,  1854  ;  m.  John  T.  Drake,  Jan.  i,  1879. 

Frank?,,  b.  May  4,  1857. 

Herbert  0„  b.  Sept.  16,  1859;  m.  Irene  J.  Cole,  June  4,  1883. 

Alonzo  S„  b.  Dec.  3,  1862;  m.  Mary  J.  Coverly,  Ajiril  24, 
1881. 

P.  O.  address  of  family,  Pequaket,  Carroll  Co.,  X.  II. 

Ruth  Bassett,  married  Nathan  B.  Hodsdon,  Nov.  29,  1841. 
Mr.  H.  died  May  23,  1874,  aged  64  years. 

Children  :  — 

Sarah  Cora   Banks,  b. ;  m.    T' rank  J.  Remick, 

Dec.  7,  1865  ;  children,  two  sons,  both  married. 

George  Washington,  b.  A])iil  26,  1847;  d.  Sept.  29,  1S70. 

Andrew  Jackson,  b.  May  27,  1850;  d.  July  3,  1852. 

Two  olliei-  cliildren  died  at  birth. 

S.AKAii  A.  married  Daniel  Judkir.s,  Jr.,  about  1847.  11' 
died  Jan.  10,  1867,  aged  42  ycais. 

Children  :  — 

Banfield  Piper,  b.  1849;  m.  Ceorgie  A.  Thurston,  June  11, 
1873.  Children  —  Bertie  D.,  b.  Nov.  20,  1874;  .Nellie,  b.  June 
22,  1879.     Banfield  lives  in  PTeedom,  N.  H. 


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Frank  Lovering,  (  M.  U.,  Lynn,  Mass),  b.  Jan,  31,  1853  ;  m. 
H attic  N.  Panott,  July  23,  1882.  Children,— Charles  M.,  b.  June 
6,  1883  ;  Abbie  P.,  b.  March  23,  1885  ;  Cclia  and  Sadie  (twins) 
b.  Oct.  12,  1886.  ;\Sadie  died  in  infancy. 

Joseph  B.'^^ni".  Caroline  \V.,  daughter  of  William  Piper  and 
granddaughter  of  Adjutant  Piper,  b.  Nov.  3,  1822  ;  d.  Dec.  8,  1895. 

Children  :  — 

Bertha  Idella,  b.  Oct.  12,  1851  ;  d.  Sept.  6,  1884;  m.  Henry 
Lucas  ;  leaves  one  daughter,  Mabel  M. 

Carrie  A„  b.  Aug.  9,  1853  ;  d.  Sept.  27,  1874. 

Willie,  b.  1855  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

Walter  Erving,  b.  Sept.  22,  1857  ;  m.  Alice  M.  Brooks. 
Children -"-  Ilartwell  R,  Walter  E.,  Jr. 

Thomas  French,  b.  Aug.  31,  1861  ;  m.  Clara  P.aton. 

Mark  F.,  m.  Susan  S.  Lovering,  Jan.  13,  1848. 

Children  —  George  Avery,  b.  Oct.  27,  1848  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

George  A,  (2d),  b.  Sept.  27,  1850;  d.  Nov.  i,  1889. 

Emma  Edwina,  b.  Sept.  2,  1853  ;  m.  Charles  H.  Bennett. 
Susan  S.  Piper  d.  March  31,  1889. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  Hmits  set  for  our  work  will  not 
permit  particular  mention  of  the  later  generations  descended 
from  the  stalwart  old  soldier,  THOMAS  PIPER,  who  fought 
valiantly,  and  suffered  hardships  untold,  in  the  "  old  French  and 
Indian  War''  of  1755  to  1763.  To  enumerate  all  his  posterity 
down  to  the  present  time  would  require  a  large  volume. 

It  "goes  without  saying"  that,  in  many  towns  of  New  Eng- 
land, there  are  families  of  Pipers — as  will  be  specified  later  — 
which  seem,  so  far  as  we  can  judge,  to  have  sprung  from  the 
Stratham  stock,  or,  at  all  events,  from  the  venerable  emigrant 
NATHANIEL  PIPER,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  who  flourished  more 
than  two  and  a  half  centuries  ago. 

John  L.  Piper,  brother  of  Elder  Noah,  and  in  the  fifth 
generation  from  Nathaniel  of  Ipswich,  came  from  Stratham  to 
Wolfeboro'  about  1800.  He  was,  for  many  years,  a  successful 
merchant.  He  had  four  children, — Moses,  father  of  John  L.  and 
Jonas  W.  Piper ;  George ;  Phebe,  who  married  Dea.  Thomas 
Rust,  and  whose  son  is  George  H.  Rust  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.  ; 
and  Jane,  \vho  married  Nathaniel  Rogers. 


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Israel  Piper,  not  a  brother  of  the  preceding,  but  also  in  the 
fifth  generation  from  the  Ipswich  settler,  was  once  a  resident  of 
Tuftonboro'.     His  daughter,  Nabby,  married  a  Bryant. 

Another  Piper  family  was  formerly  quite  prominent  in  that 
town,  or  we  might  rather  say,  two  families. 

Francis  Piper  and  his  brother  Stephe.v  came  to  Tufton 
boro'   from   Northwood    (?),  N.  H.,  as  early  as  1811,  or  perhaps 
earlier. 

Francis  Piper  married  Abigail  Wiggin,  about . 

Children  —  Nancy,  George  "W,,  Reuben  H.,  Cynthia,  Amanda, 
Emory,  Clarissa,  T,  Jefferson,  Greenleaf  C,  and  Elmira. 

Most  of  these  married  and  reared  families.  Cynthia  married 
Enoch  Haley,  son  of  William  and  Lois  (Ricker)  Haley.  (See 
"  Haley  Family.") 

Stephen  Piper  married . 

Children  —  Amasa,  James,  Both  lived  on  the  "  South  Road" 
in  Tuftonboro'.  They  died  many  years  ago.  Amasa,  we  believe, 
left  no  descendants.  James  left  one  son,  Stephen,  who  married 
Phebe  E.  Young,  and  died.  They  had  two  children  —  Sadie  K., 
m.  Joseph  Blake;  and  Emma  J.,  m.  John  S.  Bennet.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bennett  died,  leaving  one  son,  Maurice. 

P'"rancis  Piper  had  a  brother  whose  name,  I  believe,  was 
James.  A  son  (or  grandson)  of  his,  Gardner  W'.,  b.  1816,  d. 
1868,  m.  Maria  Dustan  of  Henniker,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the 
famous  Hannah  Dustan  of  early  Indian  days.  Of  Gardner's 
children  three  sons  are  living  :  James  W.  of  Pembroke,  N.  H., 
George  H.,  and  luigene  G.,  of  Allenstown,  (.■')  X.  H. 

As  we  have  suggested,  branches  of  the  very  numerous 
Piper  family  have  been  found  in  Boston,  Concord,  and  Ipswich, 
Mass.  ;  in  Parsonsfield  and  Xewfield,  Me.  ;  in  Stratham,  New- 
market, Dover,  Nottingham,  Northwood, Wolfeboro',  Tuftonboro', 
Wakefield,  Brookfield,  Gilmanton,  Pembroke,  Sanbornton,  Mere- 
dith, Holderness,  Temple,  Dublin,  and  Loudon,  N.  H.  ;  in  several 
towns  of  Vermont,  and  in  nearly  every  state  of  our  Union.  In 
Washington,  D.  C,  our  genial  friend,  Major  Horace  L.  Piper, 
still  gives  time  and  thought  to  the  "  U.  S.  Life  Saving  Ser- 
vice," with  which  he  has  been   so  long  connected.     His   father, 


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the  late  Horace  Piper,  Esq.,  was  the  author  of  the  "Piper  Gene- 
alogy," to  which  valuable  compilation,  as  said  before,  we  feel 
deeply  indebted  for  many  facts  and  dates  comprised  in  the 
preceding  pages. 

But  we  have  already  overpassed  the  limits  set  for  our  work. 

For  the  genealogy  of  Elisha  Piper  of  Parsonsfield,  Me., 
Asa  Piper  of  Wakefield,  N.  H.,  Solomon  Piper  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  and  Stephen  Piper  of  Newfield,  Me.,  with  their  descend- 
ants, we  must  refer  the  reader  to  Mr.  Horace  Piper's  excellent 
book  to  which  we  have  several  times  referred. 


NEAL   FAMILY. 


At  the  outset,  I  hardly  need  remind  the  reader  that  I  do  not 
contemplate  a  complete  history  of  this  ancient,  numerous,  and 
widely  extended  family.  I  merely  undertake  to  give  a  brief 
sketch  of  one  or  two  branches  of  the  family,  in  which  I  am 
specially  interested. 

As  to  the  derivation  of  the  name,  I  have  never  seen  any 
that  seemed  to  me  other  than  trivial  or  fanciful. 

The  name  itself,  like  many  another  ancient  name,  exhibits  a 
wide  range  of  orthography.  I  have  met  with  the  spelling  — 
Neal,  Neale,  Nele,  Neel,  Neil,  Niel,  Neele,  Niall,  and  even  Knel, 
Kneele  and  Knill.  I  judge  that  the  family  is  of  English  origin, 
though  there  are  branches  in  Ireland  and  Scotland.  Presumably, 
though  there  may  be  exceptions  to  the  remark,  the  Neils  and 
Niels  are  either  Scotch  or  Irish,  while  the  O'Neils  are  Irish,  and 
the  MacNeals  and  McNeils  are  Scotch. 

The  Neal  family  in  England  is  a  very  ancient  one.  I  find 
reference  made  to  them  in  the  time  of  Edward  I\^,  1461-83.  In 
some  old  records  of  Visitation,  comprising  1566  to  161S,  mention 
is  made  of  a  certain  "Walter  Neal,"  perhaps  the  earliest  of  that 
individual  name.  Richard  Neale,  Knight,  one  of  the  Justices  of 
Common  Pleas,  and  Lord  of  Prestwould,  died  in  1485.  His  coat 
of  arms  —  the  same  with  that  of  the  Neals  of  Leicestershire  and 
Northamptonshire,  and  with  that  borne  by  Capt.  Walter  Neale, 
of  whom  we  speak  later  —  consistctl  of  "three  greyhounds' 
heads, — erased, —  collared, —  and  ringed."  (J.  Mason, —  "  Letters 
and  Documents."  P.  71.     Prince  Soc.) 

Thomas  Neale  (15 19-1596)  was  Profes.sor  of  Hebrew  in  the 
University  of  Oxford,  and  was  a  distinguished  author.      Many 


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other  Neals  have  honorable  mention  in  the  annals  of  English 
history.     (See  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biog.") 

Near  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  John  Neal, 
Esq.,  of  Dean,  Co.  Bedford,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Henry 
Cromwell  who  was  a  cousin  of  Oliver,  "  Lord  Protector  of  Eng- 
land." Their  son,  John,  came  over  to  this  country,  and  settled 
in  Salem,  Mass.  He  married  Mary  Lawes  from  Norwich,  Eng- 
land. It  is  supposed  that  the  Neals  of  Salem  and  vicinity  are  of 
this  line.' 

About  the  year  1660,  according  to  Folsom  and  others, 
Francis  Neale  was  very  prominent  and  influential  in  the  affairs 
of  Casco,  and  other  towns  in  Maine;  and  in  1670  he  was  Repre- 
sentative from  Falmouth  to  the  General  Court.  He  was  com- 
missioned as  a  Magistrate,  in  1660,  by  the  Agent  of  Gorges. 

I  conjecture  that  this  gentleman  took  upon  himself  connu- 
bial vows  upon  two  different  occasions, — unless,  indeed,  his  son, 
Francis,  Jr.,  who  died  in  1693,  figured  in  one  of  the  marriages. 
The  records  show  that  Francis  Neale,  about  1670,  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Andrews,  who  embarked 
from  London  in  the  "Increase,"  1635. 

It  is  also  on  record  that  Francis  Neale  married  a  daughter 
of  Arthur  and  Jane  Macworth.  When  the  Indian  troubles  broke 
out  anew,  Neale  and  his  family  moved  to  Salem,  Mass.,  where  he 
was  admitted  as  a  citizen  in  1676,  and  died  subsequent  to  July, 
1699,  at  which  d^te  he  as  "Francis  Neale,  senior,"  conveyed  land 
in  Falmouth  (Portland).  He  is  stated  to  have  left  one  son,  Sam- 
uel, and  two  daughters,  his  son  Francis,  Jr.,  having  died  a  few 
years  earlier.  Some  think  that  Francis,  senior,  was  a  brother  to 
the  emigrant,  John  Neale,  above  mentioned  ;  and  there  is  little 
doubt  that  they  were  nearly  related. 

I  understand  that  that  venerable  gentleman,  Hon.  Peter  M. 
Neal  of  Lynn,  born  in  Kittery  very  early  in  the  century,  traces 
his  lineage  back  to  Francis  Neale.  His  grandson,  C.  Neal 
Barney,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  has  furnished  me  with  several  impor- 
tant genealogical  items. 

We  find  mention  of  Andrew  Neal  of  Kittery  in  1720  ;  of 
Samuel  Neal  of  Stratham,  who  married  Elizabeth  Haley  of  Kit- 
tery in  1754;  of  John  Neele  and  Jane  Evins,  who  were  "pub- 


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lished  "  in  Georgetown,  Me.,  in  Dec,  1743;  of  John  Neal,  Jr., 
who  was  town  clerk,  and  George  Neal,  who  was  tax  collector,  in 
Smithfield,  now  Litchfield,  Me.,  in  1775  ;  ofJThoma.s  Neallc,  who 
was  soldier  in  a  Maine  regiment,  in  May,  1775;  of  Andrew  Neal 
in  Cornish,  1794;  and  of  John  Neal  in  Poland,  Me.,  in  1798. 

Also,  many  references  are  made  to  Neals  in  the  several  vol- 
umes of  "York  Deeds,"  and  "Maine  Wills."  But  our  limits  will 
not  permit  the  attempt  to  trace  the  lineage  of  these  numerous 
individuals. 

We  must  wait  for  some  one  who  has  ample  time  and  means 
at  command,  to  undertake  the  preparation  and  publication  of  a 
complete  history  of  the  Neal  family. 

Among  the  early  Neals  in  England  may  be  mentioned 
Francis  Neale,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Auditors  of  the  IC.Kchequer  to 
Queen  Elizabeth. 

He   married .      Children — William,  and  Thomas, 

who  d.  Dec,  1597. 

William,  son  of  Francis,  also  one  of  the  Auditors  to  Queen 
Elizabeth,  m.  (i)  Agnes,  daughter  of  Robert  Bowyer,  sister  of 
Francis  Bowyer,  Alderman  of  London  ;  (2)  Agnes  (Hopkins) 
Culverwell. 

Children — (by  first  wife)  Thomas,  Walter,  Agnes,  Francis, 
Mary, 

Sir  Thomas  of  Warneford,  Knight,  one  of  the  Auditors  to 
Qiieen  Elizabeth  and  King  James,  and  son  of  William  Neal,  died 
Feb.  3,  1620.  He  married  (i)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Freake,  of  Co.  Dorset  ;  (2)  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Calton, 
Co.  Oxford. 

Children — by  first  marriage — Frances,  Ann,  Mary,  Elizabeth) 
by  second  marriage — Thomas,  William,  Robert, 

Walter,  son  of  William,  and  brother  of  Sir  Thomas,  died 
in  the  latter  part  of  1612,  or  early  part  of  1613.  He  married 
(i)  iM-ances,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Oglander,  a  descendant  of 
Richard  de  Okelander,  who  came  over  with  William  the  Con- 
queror, from  Caen,  Normandy.  Walter  married  (2)  a  Lamberte. 
So  far  as  I  can  judge,  there  were  children  by  neither  marriage. 
(See  will  of  Walter  Neale,  and  that  of  his  father-in-law,  Sir  Wm. 


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Oglandcr,  in  "  N.  1'^.  Ilistor.  and  Genealogical  Register,"  for 
April,  1898.) 

It  may  be  added  here  that  Mr.  Gordon  Goodwin,  in  "Diet, 
of  Nat.  IMograph}',"  Volume  40,  has  made  the  serious  mistake  of 
confounding  this  Walter  Neale  with  Captain  Walter  Neale,  of 
whom  we  are  about  to  speak.  So  far  from  the  two  men  being 
identical,  we  have  not  yet  ascertained  whether  they  were  related, 
though  we  think  it  probable  that  they  were  so.  It  is  not  unlikely 
that  the  Captain,  perchance  a  younger  man,  and  surviving  his 
namesake  some  twenty-five  years  or  more,  may  have  been  a 
near  relative  of  the  Walter  who  died  in  161 2-1 3. 

With  reference  to  the  "mistake"  of  Mr.  Goodwin  alluded 
to  above,  Mr.  Sidney  Lee,  the  courteous  and  accomplished 
editor  of  that  truly  monumental  work,  "  Dictionary  of  National 
Biography,"  comprising  nearly  sixty  volumes,  writes  :  "  I  fear 
you  are  right  in  your  statement  respecting  a  confusion  between 
two  Walter  Neales  in  our  Dictionary.  I  will  endeavor  to  rectify 
it  in  future  issues.  I  regret  to  be  unable  to  find  any  answers  to 
your  queries,  but  should  any  information  leak  out,  I  will 
forward  it." 

With  this  assurance,  we  must  be  content  for  the  present, 
and  wait  patiently  for  "  more  light." 

Captain  Walter  Neale  appears  on  the  scene  about  1612 
to  161 5.  If  he  were,  as  is  possible,  the  same  with  that  earliest 
Walter  Neale  above  mentioned,  he  was  the  son  of  Henry  and 
Elizabeth  (Lacon)  Neale,  and  was  born  probably  about  iS9^,  or 
a  little  earlier.  He  seems  to  have  been  a  native  of  Bedfordshire, 
and  may  have  been  a  relative  of  John  Neal  of  Dean  referred  to. 
Henry  had  several  other  children  whose  names  we  cannot  give. 
We  gather  these  facts  from  the  previously  cited  records  of  the 
Visitation  of  Bedfordshire,  1566  and  later,  and  the  Visitation  of 
Northamptonshire,  16 18.  Fired  with  military  ambition,  young 
Walter  entered  the  English  army  not  far  from  161 5.  He 
served  in  Bohemia  and  the  Rhine  country  under  Count  Ernst 
Von  Mansfeldt,  and  there  gained  the  rank  of  Captain. 

After  various  experiences,  he  came  over  to  America,  as  the 
agent  of  Mason  and  Gorges.  It  was  in  1630  that  he  sailed  in 
the  ship  "Warwick,"  for  Piscataqua,  or  the  lower  settlement  of 


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New  Hampshire,  comprising  Portsmouth  and  Newcastle,  with  a 
part  of  Rye,  Newington,  and  Greenland.  He  was  sent  as  Gov- 
ernor of  the  plantation,  and  his  commission  bore  the  signatures 
of  John  Mason,  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  and  others.  At  about 
the  same  time,  Capt.  Thomas  Wiggin,  ancestor  of  the  W'iggin 
faniily  in  this  country,  was  Governor  of  the  upper  plantation,  with 
headquarters  at  Northam,  now  Dover.  The  boundaries  of  the 
two  plantations  seem  to  have  been  for  a  time  very  vague  and 
elastic.  A  violent  clash  between  Neale  and  W'iggin  as  to  juris- 
diction, accompanied  with  gory  threats  and  sulphurous  language, 
gave  name  to  "Bloody  Point,"  now  "Newington,"  between  Dover 
and  Portsmouth.  We  are  happy  to  add.  however,  that  no  blood 
was  actually  spilled  on  the  occasion,  the  wrathful  disputants  being 
persuaded  to  refer  the  "vexed  question"  to  their  employers. 

In  1632,  according  to  Belknap,  Capt.  Neale,  in  company  with 
Jocelyn  and  Darby  Field,  set  out  on  foot  to  visit  the  "beautiful 
lakes ''  of  which  they  had  heard  rumors,  and  to  open  trade  with 
the  Indians.  In  the  course  of  their  travels,  they  visited  the 
White  Mountains,  which  they  described  in  very  glowing  terms, 
and  to  which,  on  account  of  some  shining  pebbles  which  they 
found  in  that  vicinity,  they  gave  the  name  "  Chrystal  Hills." 

It  is  said,  also,  that  Neale  and  Wiggin  surveyed  and  fi.xed  the 
boundaries  of  Portsmouth,  Dover,  and  Hampton,  and  that  they 
assisted  Wheelwright  in  fixing  the  bounds  of  his  plantation 
known  as  "  I^xeter." 

In  August,  1633,  Capt.  Neale  embarked  in  the  ship  "  I^liza- 
beth  Bonadventure''  for  England,  whence  it  does  not  ai)pear 
that  he  ever  returned  to  America.  In  1634,  at  the  instance  of 
the  King,  Charles  the  First,  Neale  was  chosen  Captain  of  the 
Artillery  Garden  in  London.  There  he  drilled  the  citizens  care- 
fully for  four  years.  He  then  applied  for  the  position  of 
Sergeant-Major  of  Virginia,  but  another  secured  the  prize. 

In  1638,  he  petitioned  the  King  for  appointment  as  Lieut. 
Governor  of  the  Military  Station  of  Portsmouth,  England.  In 
this  petition,  as  cited  by  Sainsbury,  he  sets  forth  that  "  he  has 
served  in  all  the  King's  expeditions  for  the  last  20  years ;  com- 
manded 4  years,  and  brought  to  perfection  the  Company  of  the 


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Artillery  Garden.  Lived  three  years  in  New  England,  and  made 
greater  discoveries  than  were  ever  made  before.  Exactly  dis- 
covered all  the  rivers  and  harbors  in  the  habitable  parts  of  the 
country.     Prays  to  be  appointed  Governor." 

The  following  is  a  fac-simile  of   the   manly  and  handsome 
autograph  of  the  valiant  old  soldier  : 


wi: 


His  petition  met  with  a  favorable  response,  and  in  the 
following  year,  1639,  he  received  the  desired  and  highly  creditable 
appointment. 

An  apparently  official  letter  of  his  is  extant,  dated  at 
Portsmouth,  England,  July  13,  1639,  and  relating  to  the  landing 
or  transportation  of  300  Spanish  soldiers,  no  doubt  prisoners  of 
war.  This  letter  furnishes  the  last  glimpse  we  get  of  the  sturdy 
old  Captain.  At  this  point  he  disappears  from  our  field  of  view. 
Although  I  have  made  careful  investigation,  I  have  failed  to 
learn  whether  Captain  Walter  Neale  was  married,  and  had 
children  ;  also,  when  and  where  he  died.  There  is,  indeed,  a 
tradition  cited,  we  believe,  by  Adams  in  "  Annals  of  Ports- 
moth,  N.  H.,"  to  the  effect  that  the  old  Captain  died  in  London. 
This  tradition  may  be  authentic,  but  we  do  not  know  on  what 
it  is  based. 

It  is  not  unlikely  that  a  protracted  and  expensive  examina- 
tion of  records  and  archives  in  various  towns,  cities  and  counties 
of  England  might  solve  the  problem.  My  own  attempts  in  that 
line  have,  however,  produced  but  meagre  results. 

Captain  Walter  Neal,  2d,  next  appears  before  us.  His 
parentage,  and  the  place  and  date  of  his  birth  are  unknown. 
John  Farmer,  the  well-known  antiquarian,  held  that  he  was  the 
son  of  the  first  Capt.  Walter;  and  I  incline  to  that  opinion, 
although  he  may  have  been  a  nephew,  instead.  A  "deposition" 
of  Walter,  2d,  recorded  in  "  N.  H.  Hist.  Society's  Collections," 
Vol.  VHI.,  pp.  185-6,  implies  that  he  was  born  about  1633,  the 
year  in  which  Capt.  Walter,  ist,  sailed  for  England. 


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Let  us  assume  that  Capt.  Walter,  the  explorer,  married 
shortly  after  his  return  to  England  ;  if,  indeed,  he  had  not  been 
married  earlier.  Let  us  suppose,  also,  that  a  son  Walter  was  born 
to  the  couple  as  soon  as  might  be,  in  the  course  of  things.  Now, 
nothing  would  be  more  natural,  and  almost  inevitable,  than  that 
this  son,  on  reaching  manhood,  inheriting  his  father's  adventurous 
disposition,  and  fired  by  his  father's  glowing  tales  of  the  wonders 
of  the  New  World,  should  make  his  way  to  America  as  early  as 
possible.  Accordingly,  we  find,  in  1653,  Walter  Neale,  the 
younger,  a  resident  of  Greenland,  N.  H.  If  our  hypothesis 
be  correct,  he  was  then  not  far  from  20  years  of  age.  In 
Greenland,  it  is  to  be  noted,  he  would  be  quite  near  to  his 
reputed  father's  former  headquarters.  And  this  town,  lying  in 
part  between  Dover  and  Portsmouth,  was,  singularly  enough, 
sometimes  reckoned  as  belonging  to  the  former,  and  at  other 
times  to  the  latter. 

We  find,  from  Hackett's  "Portsmouth  Records,  1645-1656," 
that  the  citizens  of  Portsmouth,  in  town  meeting  assembled, 
voted  to  grant  unto  "Walter  neall"  a  lot  of  "  eaight  ackers  "  to 
his  house  on  the  neck  of  land  "by  Winacont  River."  Date, 
Dec.  5,  1653.  This  shows  clearly  that  at  that  time  Portsmouth 
claimed  a  portion,  or  the  whole,  of  Greenland,  and  exercised 
jurisdiction  over  it.  On  the  other  hand,  in  the  will  of  John  Hall, 
dated  1677,  Greenland  was  spoken  of  as  a  "township  of  Dover." 
This  peculiar  overlapping  of  jurisdictions  appears  in  the  annals 
of  many  years,  and  is  likely  to  confuse  the  unwary  reader. 

In  1655-6,  Walter  Neale  had  fifty  acres  assigned  to  him  by 
the  side  of  Capt.  Champernoun's  farm,  at  Greenland,  and  the 
boundaries  of  his  lot,  it  being  91  poles  square,  are  described. 

In  1660,  at  a  town  meeting  held  for  the  purpose  of  appor- 
tioning the  undivided  lands,  he  received  additional  territory. 

In  1658-66,  among  those  who  subscribed  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  minister  in  Portsmouth,  we  find  "  Walr  Neale,  15s." 

In  1666,  a  military  company  at  Portsmouth  cho.se  Waller 
Neale  Lieutenant,  but  the  court  ordered  that  his  commission 
should  be  withheld  until  he  should  be  admitted  to  "fredome 
of  this  country."     Does  this  imply  that  he  was  not  a  native  of 


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America?  Or  is  it  to  be  taken  in  the  later  sense  of  the  expres- 
sion, as  related  to  church-membership  and  the  right  of  franchise? 

In  1678,  the  Selectmen  of  Portsmouth  appointed  "tything- 
mcn,"  one  of  whom  was  Lieut.  Neale  "for  all  the  families" in 
Greenland."     (In  1692,  these  families  were  68  in  number.) 

In  1679,  Nov.  28,  a  deed  given  by  "Lt.  Walter  Neale  of 
Greenland  in  the  township  of  Portsmouth,"  c(;nveys  land  in  Green- 
land to  George  Huntress. 

In  the  Constables'  Rates  for  1688,  Walter  Neale  is  named  as 
a  resident  of  Greenland  ;  because,  says  Mr.  Brewster,  Greenland 
then  included  "the  western  part  of  Portsmouth,  Greenland,  and 
Newington.'' 

In  1689-90,  Walter  Neale  had  attained  the  rank  of  "  Cap- 
tain." He  is  mentioned  as  such  in  a  list  of  Portsmouth's  mili- 
tary officers.  Hence,  I  have  styled  him  "Captain  Walter 
Neale,  2d." 

At  a  town  meeting  in  Portsmouth,  April  3,  1693,  a  commit- 
tee, among  whom  was  "  Capt.  Walter  Nele,"  was  appointed  to 
arrange  the  sittings  in  the  meeting-house — the  people  to  be  seated 
according  to  their  rank  and  position  in  life.  As  a  result,  the  seat 
of  honor— the  front  seat  facing  the  minister — was  assigned  to 
"Lieut.  Sloper  "  and  "Capt.  Nele."  This  sufficiently  indicates 
the  Captain's  prominence  in  the  community. 

On  Feb.  3,  1702-3,  Walter  Neale  of  Greenland  in  Ports- 
mouth executed  a  deed  in  favor  of  his  well  beloved  grandchildren, 
the  children  of  "  ray  son  Samuel  Neale  of  Greenland  aforesaid, 
late  deceased,"  and  he  specifies  his  "well  beloved  grandson 
Samuel  Neale — not  21  years  of  age." 

This  furnishes  a  clue  to  the  date  of  the  decease  of  that 
Samuel  Neale  who,  according  to  Dover  records,  was  born  in  i66r. 

Here  we  lose  sight  of  Capt.  Walter  Neale,  2d.  Like  his 
namesake,  Capt.  Walter  Neale,  ist,  he  disappears  from  our  field 
of  vision. 

After  a  careful  examination  of  old  records  and  epitaphs  in 
Greenland  and  in  Portsmouth,  I  have  been  unable  to  find  any 
clue  to  the  time  and  place  of  his  death  and  burial.  It  seems 
probable,  however,  that  he  died  previous  to  17 17,  since  in  a  list  of 
rate-payers  in  Portsmouth,  of  that  date,  including  those  of  both 


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meeting-houses,  the  old  (North)  and  the  new  (South),  his  name 
does  not  appear.  Had  he  been  Hving,  his  name  would  hardly 
have  been  omitted. 

It  seems  a  little  strange  that,  in  the  case  of  so  eminent  a 
citizen,  no  record  of  his  death  siiould  be  extant,  and  no  tomb- 
stone should  mark  his  grave,  so  far  as  known.  I  incline  to  think 
that  the  circumstances  may  have  been  somewhat  as  follows: 
In  the  earlier  period  of  his  residence  in  Greenland,  he  lived,  as  I 
conjecture,  in  the  northern  part  of  the  town  near  to  Dover,  hence 
was  reckoned  as  a  citizen  of  that  town.  Later  on,  he  may  have 
moved  to  the  southern  part  of  the  town,  so  near  to  Portsmouth 
that  he  and  his  family  attended  church  services  there,  and  were 
reckoned  as  citizens  of  that  town.  And  he  may  have  been 
interred  in  some  private  burial  ground,  perhaps,  on  his  own 
estate.  And,  in  the  lapse  of  some  200  years,  this  burial  place 
may  have  been  forgotten,  or,  possibly,  ploughed  over,  and  the 
tombstones  carried  off,  and  destroyed  —  as  was  the  case  with  the 
old  cemetery  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Stratham. 

Possibly  his  ashes  lie  beneath  one  of  the  nameless,  almost 
undistinguishable  mounds  which  I  came  upon  in  the  older  part 
of  Greenland  cemetery.  Should  the  old  records  of  Portsmouth, 
from  1656  to  1800,  ever  be  transcribed  and  published,  some 
light  may  be  thrown  upon  the  dark  points  above  named.  Let  us 
hope  that  some  one  will  soon  arise  to  complete  the  good  work 
which  Mr.  F.  W.  Hackett  so  well  began. 

And  we  may  add  that  a  thorough  exploration  of  nooks  and 
corners  in  the  southern  part  of  the  town  of  Greenland  might 
possibly  discover  the  last  resting-place  of  the'  remains  of  C.\rT.\iN 
Walter  Neal,  2d. 


FIRST    GENKRATION. 

As  Captain  Walter  Neale,  2d,  was,  so  far  as  we  know, 
the  first  of  the  name  who  passed  most  or  all   of  his  life  in  this 

country,  we  may  assign  him  to  the  first  generation. 


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SPXOND    GENERATION. 

Wai.tkk  Neal,  21),  married  Mary .     Tradition  has  it 

that  her  maiden  name  was  Mary  Ayers. 
thp:ir  children. 

All  that  is  certain/}'  known  as  to  their  children  is  comprised 
in  the  following  excerpt  from  the  old  records  of  Dover,  N.  H. : 

"Samuel  Neale  son  of  Walter  Neale  by  Mary  his  wife  born 
ye  14th  June  1661. 

"  Mary  daugh  of  Walter  Neale  by  Mary  his  wife,  born  ye  3 1 
Mar.  1668 ;  she  herselfe  dyed  ye  first  Friday  in  Aprill  following 
1668."   '         ■'     ■'^^' 

Apparently  the  meaning  is  that  the  slaughter  died.  Of 
course,  it  is  possible  that  the  parents  gave  the  same  name  to 
another  daughter  born  subsequently. 

Samuel  died  as  early  as  1702  or  1703. 

Tradition — which  is  certainly  wrong  in  some  particulars — 
ascribes  to  Capt.  Walter  2d  and  Mary  (Ayers)  Neal  the  following 
children : 

John,  who  married  a  Lovett. 

Eliphalet,  married  a  Sinclair. 

William,  — — . 

Joshua,  married  Mary  Tarleton. 

Thomas,  married  a  Thompson. 

Clement, . 

James, . 

Mary,  married  James  Ayers. 

(This  couple  are  said  to  have  been  the  grandparents  of  the 
late  Levi  W.  Ayers  of  Tuftonboro'.) 

Olive,  married  a  Lang  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Concerning  this  traditional  list  several  things  are  to  be 
noted  : 

(i).  The  name  of  Samuel  Neal  Cpresumably  the  oldest 
child  of  the  couple)  given  in  the  Dover  records,  does  not  appear 
in  the  traditional  list  at  all. 

(2).  ,  One  or  more  of  the  persons  mentioned  in  the  present 
list  could  not  possibly  have  been  the  children  of  Walter  2d  and 
Mary  (Ayers)    Neal.      Thus,  Joshua  Neal,  who  married  Mary 


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Tarleton,  was  born  in  1756,  as  we  know  from  family  records. 
Hence,  he  could  not  have  been  the  son  of  those  parents  t(^  whom 
children  were  born  in  1661  and  1668 — nearly  a  hundred 
years  earlier!  Again,  if  James  and  Mary  (Xeal)  Ayers  were 
really  the  grandparents  of  Levi  W.  Ayers,  whom  I  well  remem- 
ber, then  IMary  could  not  have  been  born  200  years  ago,  the 
daughter  of  Walter  Neal,  2d,  and  his  wife  Mary,  referred  to  in 
the  Dover  records. 

(3)  My  conclusion  is  that,  in  the  near  two  hundred  years 
which  have  intervened  since  the  days  of  Walter  Xeal,  2d.  he  has 
come  to  be,  in  some  measure,  confounded  with  his  grandsoui 
Walter  Neal,  3d;  and  that  the  children  of  the  latter  —  some,  if 
not  all,  of  them  — have  consequently  been  ascribed  to  the  former.  ■ 

I  shall  indicate,  later  on,  what  corrections  should,  in  my 
opinion,  be  made.  I  proceed  to  give  such  information  as  I  have 
been  able  to  glean  from  the  rather  meagre  and  defective  records 
of  the  town,  parish,  and  church  of  Greenland,  X.  H. 

THIRD  GENERATION. 

John  Neale  married  Margaret  (  Lovett .'').  This  couple 
were  admitted  to  the  Congregational  church  in  Greenland  in 
1 7 19.  (This  John  may  have  been  the  youngest  son  of  Capt. 
Walter,  2d,  born  as  late  as  1680  or  1686.  Tradition  gives  his 
wife's  family  name  as  Lovett.) 

TIIEIK    CIIII.DKI'.N. 

Abigail,  baptized  in  1719. 

John,  "  "   1720. 

Walter,         "  "   1722. 

John,  "  "   1725- 

James,  "  "   1727- 

Sarah,  "  "   1729- 

(The  records  give  Sarah's  father  as  "  Deacon  Ncalc,"  but  I 
assume  that  he  was  identical  with  "John  Neale  ") 

Samuel  Neale  married  Elizabeth .  [He  was  admit- 
ted to  the  church  in  1722,  as  she  had  been  in  17 13.  It  is  to  be 
noted  that  this  Samuel   was  doubtless  the  j^rniu/soii  of  Walter 


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Ncale,  2d  ;  Walter's  son  Samuel  having  died  in  1703,  or  a  little 
earlier,  as  noted  before.  From  records  in  Portsmouth,  1  learn 
that  Samuel  Nkal,  Senior,  was  admitted  to  the  North  Church, 
Nov.  26,  1695  ;  and  that  his  children,  Thomas,  Walter,  and 
Jeremiah,  were  baptized  April  21,  1695,  and  Joshua  baptized  Feb. 
II,  1697.  So  that  Samuel,  senior,  born  in  1661,  had  at  least  5 
sons.  His  wife's  family  name  we  do  not  know.  This  Walter, 
son  of  Samuel,  and  grandson  of  Capt.  Walter,  2d,  was  doubtless 
the  Walter  mentioned  later,  who  was  born  in  1692,  and  who 
married  Ann  Mattoon  in  171 5,  and  who  died  April  17,  1755, 
leaving  a  large  family.] 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Mary,       baptized  in  171 3. 

Jonathan,  "  "  1214. 

Elizabeth,  "  "  1719. 

Anna,  "  "  1719. 

Comfort,  "  "  1723. 

Hannah,  "  "  1728. 

Ruhamah,  "  "  1729. 

[Besides  these,  of  parentage  not  stated,  I  find  the  names  of 
Jeane  Neale  admitted  to  the  Greenland  church  in  17 14,  and 
Mary  Neale  admitted  in  1742.  Very  probably  this  Mary  was 
the  oldest  child  of  Samuel,  as  above  stated. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  add  the  following  names  taken  from 
a  list  of  the  early  tax-payers  in  the  town  of  Greenland  :  — 

Samuel  Neale,  1753. 

Walter  Neale,    1753. 

Deacon  Neale,  1754. 

Samuel  Neale,  1754. 

Widow  Neale,  1756. 

John  Neale,       1756. 

James  Neale,  1756.] 

FOURTH  GENERATION. 

Walter  Neal,  3D,  m.  Hannah .     He  was  admitted 

to  the  Greenland  church  in  1742.      This  man  has,  as  I  think, 


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been  confounded  with  his  grandfather,  Walter  Neal,  2d ;  hence, 
I  feel  no  hesitation  in  ascribing  to  Walter,  3d,  three,  at  least,  of 
the  children  mentioned  in  the  "traditional  list  "  which  we  have 
already  given. 

TIIEIK    CHILDREN'. 

William,  son  of  Walter  and  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  2,  1750. 

Mary,  b.  ;  m.  James  Ayers. 

Joshua,  b.  June  23,  1756;  d.  Nov.  4,  1840. 

[As  to  William,  the  Greenland  records  state  explicitly  his 
parentage,  and  the  date  of  his  birth. 

Tradition  makes  Mary  the  sister  of  William,  and  if  so,  she 
belongs  here;-  and  in  that  case  .she  may  well  have  been  the 
grandmother  of  Levi  W.  Ayers  of  Tuftonboro'. 

With  reference  to  Joshua,  my  ancestor,  the  case  is  not  so 
clear.  The  family  record  in  his  old  Bible  gives  no  clue  to  the 
name  of  his  father  or  his  mother.  But  unvarying  tradition  gives 
his  father's  name  as  "Walter."  Then,  the  fact  that  he  gave  to  a 
daughter  of  his  the  name  "Hannah,"  may  be  a  kind  of  intima- 
tion that  his  mother  bore  the  same  loved  name. 

Under  the  circumstances,  I  confidently  place  him,  as  above, 
among  the  children  of  Walter  and  Hannah  Neal.  There  was 
another  Joshua  Neal,  in  the  line  of  Samuel  Neal,  but  he  married 
Abigail  Haines,  and  belonged  to  an  earlier  generation.  A  third 
Joshua  was  a  cotemporary  with  our  Joshua,  both  living  in  Ports- 
mouth at  the  same  time.     This  third  Joshua  died  in  183 1. 

Whether  any  others  of  the  "traditional  list"  j)reviou.sly 
given  really  belong  among  the  posterity  of  Walter  and  Hannah, 
I  cannot  determine.     I  think  it  not  unlikely  that  they  do.] 

FIFTH   GHNFRATIOX. 

Josiiu.v  Ne.\l  married  Mary  Tarleton  of  Newcastle,  N.  H.. 
on  June  16,  1776.  He  was  born  in  Greenland,  as  above,  and 
died  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  on  Nov.  4,  1840.  She  was  born  on 
Aug.  12,  1756,  ant!  died  Dec.  10,  1825.  She  was  llie  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Mary  (Cotton)  Taileton.  The  chiUlren  of  the  last 
named  couple  were  Mar\-  ist,  Mary  2d,  Elizabeth,  John.  Hannah. 


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and    Ruth.       Of  these,  Mary  ist,  Elizabeth,  and  John  died  very- 
early.     Mary  Cotton's  family  lived  on  Cape  Ann. 

Joshua  Neal  served  in  the  Revolutionary   Army.     In  Nov., 
1775,    he  was  a  fifer  in  Capt.  Thos.    Berry's    Co.,  Col.    Joshua_ 
Wincfate's  Re<r.,  stationed  on  Pierce's  Island,  for  the  defence  of 
Piscataqua  Harbor. 

Probably  a  little  later,  he  appears  in  Capt.  John  Calfe's 
(Calef's)  Co.,  Col.  Pierce  Long's  Reg.,  as  a  volunteer  from 
Greenland.     I  judge  that  he  served  through  the  war. 

In  1783,  Joshua  Neal,  with  others,  signed  a  petition  to  the 
General  Court,  asking  that  Greenland  might  be  permitted  to 
send  a  representative  to  that  body. 

Not  long  after  he  seems  to  have  removed  to  Portsmouth, 
where  he  lived  for  many  years.  Near  1823,  he  moved  to  Tuf- 
tonboro',  where  he  died  in  1840. 

His  wife,  Mary  (Tarleton)  Neal,  had  passed  away  some 
fifteen  years  before 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Betsey,  b.  May  2,  1777  ;   m.  Henry  Allard  ;  d.  January,  1861. 

Richard,  b.  1779;  d.  1 780. 

Hannah,  b.  March  22,  1781  ;  m.  Timothy  Piper,  Jan.  21, 
1800  ;  d.  August  23,  1865. 

Mary,  b.  1782  ;  d.  1786. 

Mehitable,  b.  July  17,  1785;  m.  Samuel  Swett  in  1812;  d. 
Oct.  24,  1870. 

Polly,  b.  June  26,  1791  ;  m.  Jo.seph  Kent;  d.  about  1844  or 
'45.     He  died  near  the  same  time 

John,  b.  Oct.  13,  1793;  m.  Nabby  Hersey,  March  4,  1819; 
d.  Sept.  23,  1855.  She  was  born  Sept.  28,  1789,  and  d.  May  9, 
1872. 

SIXTH  GENERATION. 

Betsey  Neal  married  Henry  Allard.  Concerning  the 
Allard  family,  I  have  been  able  to  glean  fewer  items  than  I  could 
wish.  There  were  Allards  in  the  early  history  of  Dover,  and  of 
Newcastle,  N.  H.  It  may  be  that  Henry  and  his  brother 
Jonathan  came  to  Wolfeboro'  from  Newcastle,  the  early  home 


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of  the  mother  of  Henry's  bride.  Jonathan  married  EHzabeth 
Berry,  and  moved  to  Canada  about  1808.  Henry  Allard  was 
born  in  Sept.,  1761,  and  died  in  Shefford,  Can.,  in  Feb.,  1856, 
aged  95.  His  wife,  Betsey  Neal,  was  born  in  Greenland  (.'),  N. 
H.,  in  May,  1777,  and  died  in  Shefford  in  Jan.,  1861,  aged  84. 
They  moved  to  Canada  about  18 18. 

TIIKIK    ClULDKKX. 

Jonathan  2d,  b.  in  Wolfeboro',  N.  H.,  in  1808;  d.  in  Waterloo* 
P.  Q.,  in  1878  ;  m.  his  cousin,  daughter  of  Jonathan,  ist.  Kight 
children,  of  whom  two  are  living  —  Anne,  who  m.  James'R. 
Booth,  and  a  younger  sister.  Mrs.  Booth  has  kindly  aided  me  by 
furnishing  information  in  regard  to  the  family. 

Harriet,  b. ;  m.   Peter  Keniston.      Some  50  years 

since  they  moved  to  Lareston,  Illinois. 

Mary  A„  b. ;  m.    h'arman   Bates,  and,  after  a  few 

years,  removed  to  Marshall,  Iowa. 

Eliza  A,  (sometimes  called  "Betsey"),  twin  with  Mary,  m. 
C2eorge  Wentwortb.  They  returned  to  N.  H.  some  50  years 
ago.  Children  —  Mrs.  Rose  Bean,  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  Charles  B. 
Wejitimilb,  VVolfeborf)',  N.  H.  To  the  latter  I  am  indebted  for 
information.     Eliza  died  Jan.  12,  1899,  aged  87, 

From  the  history  of  Wolfeboro',  I  gather  that,  in  1792, 
Henry  Allard  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  Society  in 
that  town,  then  under  the  pastoral  care  of  I'21der  Isaac  Townsend. 
At  about  the  .same  time,  Lydia  Allard,  who  was,  as  I  learn,  the 
first  wife  of  Henry,  is  mentioned  among  the  members  of  the 
same  society. 

As  previously  stated,  Jonathan  AUartl,  i.st,  moved  to  Canada 
some  90  years  ago,  and  his  brother  Henry  followev.!  him  some  10 
years  later.  Henry  and  his  family  settled  in  the  township  of 
Shefford,  which  became  their  residence  from  that  time. 

Hannah  Nf.al  married  Timothy  Piper.  This  couple  liad 
thirteen  children,  all  of  whom  lived  to  mature  years,  and  twelve 
of  whom  married  and  reared  families. 

(  h'or  particulars,  see  "  Pii'kk  Family  ". ) 

Meuitable  Neal  married  Samuel  Swett. 


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riii:iR  cniLDKKX. 


Joshua  N.,  b.  Dec.  ii,  1813  ;  went  to  South  Dakota,  married, 
and  d.  alxmt  5  years  since,  leaving  a  family  of  5  children. 

Huldah  S„  b.  Oct.  20,  18 17;  m.  William  Palmer,  and  has 
two  children  living,  Helen,  and  Dana. 

Mary  A„  b.  July  20,  1820;  m.  Daniel  Leary.  Three 
children,  Martha,  John,  and  Ann.  Mr.  Leary  was  killed  in  the 
battle  of  Chancellorsville,  on  August  3,  1864,  a  Union  soldier. 

John,  b.  Feb.  20,  1826;  d.  of  fever,  a  soldier  in  the  Union 
Army. 

Polly  Neal  married  Joseph  Kent.  Joseph  was  the  son 
of  William  Kent  of  Wolfeboro'.  I  find  the  names  of  William 
Kent  and  Joseph  Kent  among  the  early  mill-owners  of  that 
town.  It  is  thought  that  Joshua  Neal,  father  of  Polly,  lived 
in  Wolfeboro'  for  a  time,  after  leaving  Portsmouth,  and  before 
moving  to  Tuftonboro',  his  later  residence.  Probably  Joseph 
and  Polly  were  married  in  Wolfeboro'.  Many  years  since,  they 
moved  to  Granby,  Canada,  where  she  died  in  1843,  and  he  in 
1879,  in  his  90th  year. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

From  the  best  information  which  I  have  been  able  to  gather, 
the  following  were  the  children,  with  the  grandchildren,  of 
Joseph  and  Polly  Kent :  — 

Sewell,  m.  Theda  Herrick  ;  children  —  Daniel,  Lois,  Maria, 
Hiram,  Joseph,  Henry,  Jonathan,  Sanford,  W^illiam.  Sewell  d. 
in  1873. 

John,  m.  Nancy  Corey;  children  —  Adelia  A.,  Ruth  Arrilla, 
Stewart,  John  Banfield,  Amanda,  Charles  E. 

Fannie,  m.  Aaron  Vilas;  children — Emily,  Eliza,  Martha 
M.,  Sarah  Melvina,   Lucy,  William  F.     P'annie  d.  Dec,  1870. 

Mary,  m.  Francis  Hyatt ;  children  —  Cornelia,  Elizabeth, 
Josephine,  William  Henry,  George  Arthur.  Mary  d.  Nov.  15,  1898. 

James,  b.  in  1819;  m.  Hannah  Spears  ;  children — William, 
Elvira,   Elizabeth,  L.  Ellen,  Joseph  Arthur,  Arlington. 

Joshua,  d.  July,  1845,  unmarried. 

Eliza,  b.  April,  1825  ;  m.  Thomas  Stanley.     No  children. 


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I  am  indebted  to  IMrs.  Stanley  for  information  concerning 
the  family. 

Sarah,  m.  John  C.  lielcher  ;  children  —  Lucy,  Alice,  John, 
Mary,  Joseph  William,  Sadie. 

William,  m.  Caroline  Knowlton  ;  children — Carrie  Belle, 
Hattie,  Joseph  Amasa,  Eva,  Fred. 

John  and  his  family  live  in  Barnston,  C.  E. 

James  and  L^liza  reside  in  Granby,  Canada  ;  William  and 
Sarah  with  their  families,  live  in  California. 

John  Nk.m.  married  Nabby  Hersey.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Hersey,  an  early  settler  in  the  town  of  Wolfeboro'. 

[The  first  American  ancestor  of  the  Hersey  family  was 
William,  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  1635.  He  was  made  a  "  free- 
man" in  1638,  and  became  member  of  an  artillery  conijiany  in 
1652.  In  the  Hingham  records,  the  name  is  sj^elled  "llersie," 
"Harsie,"  and  "Hearsey."  One  of  William's  family  went  early 
to  Newmarket,  N.  H.,  in  search  of  oak  and  ash  timber,  as 
he  was  a  carpenter  or  cooper.  He  took  up  land,  and  settled  in 
Newmarket.  A  descendant,  James,  married  Joanna  Iku-ley,  and 
had  ten  children,  of  whom  the  late  Jonathan  Hersey,  above 
named,  was  one,  and  Mrs.  Jemima,  first  wife  of  Adjutant  John 
Piper,  was  another.  For  the  convenience  of  some  of  my  readers, 
I  subjoin  a  few  particulars  concerning  the  Hersey  family. 

JoxAriiAN  Hrksev  (spelled    "Ilarsey"  in  family  record), 

b.  in  Newmarket,  Dec.  22,   174^^;   ni.   Mary  Wiggin  on  Feb.   15, 

1772 

Tiir.iK   ciiii.iiKi:x. 

Samuel  W„  b.  Nov.  22,  1772  ;  m.  Sally  Shorey. 

James  (/'Capt.  James,"  father  of  Gen.  George  W.,  Andrew 
L.,  and  other  children),  b.  Nov.  18,  1774;  m.  Nancy  Lucas. 

William,  b.  March  31,  1777  ;  killed  by  fall  from  a  horse. 

John.  b.  Oct.  18,  1779;  m.  Rulh  Nudd. 

Elijah,  b.  August  31,  1782;  m.  Hannah  Tibbetts 

Polly,  b.  bY'b.  28,  1785  ;  m.  Thomas  Blaisdell.  who  was  killed 
by   fall  of   inilirrame. 

Jonathan,  b.  August  4,  1787;  ni.  Nabby  Keni^b 

Nabby,  b.  Sept.  28,  1789;  m.  John  Neal. 


loll. 


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Jacob,  b.  June  25,  1792;  m.  Nancy,  sister  of  Thomas 
Blaisdcll. 

The  descendants  of  the  family  are  very  numerous  in  Tufton- 
boro'  and  Wolfeboro'.J 

Children  of  John  and  Nabby  (Hersey)  Neal. 

Richard  B„  born  March  13,  1820;  d.  Sept.  23,  1890.  He 
married  Nancy  N.,  daughter  of  David  and  Sally  (Haley)  Piper, 
April  7,  1842.     They  had  3  children. 

Thomas  W„  b  May  6.  1822  ;  d.  Nov.  27,  1890  ;  m.  Tryphena 
Kelsey,  May  25,  1845.     Five  children. 

John  L,  b.  Nov.  3,  1824;  d.  Oct.  28,  1877.  He  married 
Lydia  Scott,  Nov.  3,  1850.     Three  children. 

Joshua  A„  b.  Oct.  14,  1827;  d.  Oct.  14,  1887.  He  married 
'Angelina  Burnal,  Nov.  23,  1861.     Two  children. 

Mary  A.,  b.  April  13,  1832  ;  d.  Feb.  23,  1861. 

James  H,,  b.  Jan.  29,  1835  ;  married  Adeliza  J.  Copp,  Nov. 
II,  i860.     Four  children. 

SEVENTH   GENERATION. 
Richard  B.  Neal  married  Nancy  N.  Piper. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Charles  L,  b.  June  15,  1847;  m.  Nellie  Rich.  His  home 
is  in  California. 

Ellen  E.  J„  b.  Nov.  24,  1853;  m.  George  F.  Young.  They 
have  one  child. 

Minnie  A,  E„  b.  Oct.  20,  1859  ;  m.  Frank  A.  Hersey.  Two 
children. 

Thomas  W.  Neal  married  Tryphena  Kelsey. 

THEIR    children. 

Frank  H„  b.  Jan.  25,  1846  ;  m.  Olive  Getchel. 
Edward  C-,  b.  Oct.  31,  1848  ;  m.  Emma  J.  Copp. 

Joseph  H„  b.  Jan.  15,  1857  ;  m. . 

Mary  Alice,  b.  Sept.  i,  1859. 

Lois  C„  b.  March  19,  1863  ;  m.  Fred  Amsden. 

John  L.  Neal  married  Lydia  Scott. 


TIli:iK     CIIII.DKKN. 

Emma  F„  b.  April  ii,  1852  ;  m.  Joseph  Bullard. 
Ella  Jane,  b.  Jan.  16,  1859;  ni.  Charles  H.  McAllister. 
M.  Etta,  b. ;  ni.  Henry  Langley. 

Jo.SHUA  A.  Neai.  married  Angelina  Hurnal. 

Tiii:iK  ciiili)Ri-:n. 

Mary  A.,  b. ;  m.  Myron  W'hidden. 

Leta  B.,  e. ;  ni.  J.  \V.  Harris. 

jAMr-:s  H.  Neal  married  Adeliza  J.  Copp. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

John,  b.  March  6,  1863. 
E  William,  b.  Feb.  ii,  1865. 
I,  Newton,  b.  March  9,  1866. 
Lucy  M.  R„  b.  Nov.  i,  1872. 

OTIHCR    XKALS. 

We  have  found,  in  our  researches,  many  other  individuals 
and  families  bearing  the  name  of  Neal  in  some  of  its  forms. 
Several  of  these,  in  all  probability,  are  descendants  of  Capt. 
Walter  Neal,  2d,  while  others  may  not  be  so.  Some  of  them  we 
will  mention  ;  others  have  already  been  referred  to. 

(  From  church'records,  Portsmouth.) 

Robert  Neal  and  lulith  Jackson,  married  by  Rev.  .Samuel 
Haven,  Oct.  6,  1747. 

Tiii:iR  ciiili»ri:n. 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  7,  1759. 

Richard,  b.  Sept.  19,  1766;  d. 

Andrew,  b.  May  — ,  1769. 


James  and  John  (twins),  b.  July  25,  1772. 
Robert,  b.  Nov.  17,   1779. 
Peggy,  b.  June  15,  1783. 
Samuel,  b.  April  9,  1786. 
Richard,  b.  Jan.  7,  1792. 


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[Whether  all  these  children  were  born  of  one  mother  is 
doubtful,  to  say  the  least.  It  was  probably  Robert  Neal,  Senior, 
who,  in  April,  1776,  in  connection  with  Thomas  Hayley  and 
others,  as  previously  noted,  manifested  his  patriotism  in  overt 
opposition  to  British  tyranny]. 

Elsewhere  I  find, — 

Samuel  Neal  and  Sally  Whidden  married  Aug.  22,  1790. 
Children  —  Samuel  and  Sally  (twins),  baptized  Sept.  9,  1792. 
Mary,  baptized  June  14,  1795. 

( On  tombstones  in  Portsmouth.) 

Robert  Neal,  b   1780;  d.  Jan.  2,  1852. 

James  Neal,  d.  1833,  aged  26  years.  [I  suspect  that  the 
"  Robert  Neal  "  here  named  was  Robert,  Jr.,  and  was  really  born 
on  Nov.  17,  1779,  as  above.] 

(From  church  records  at  Portsmouth.) 

In  1671,  Walter  Neale's  name  appears  among  the  names  of 
church  members,  and  the  same  list  contains  the  names  of  W- 
Neal  and  Sam.  Neal.  Probably  two  of  these  were  Capt.  Walter, 
2d,  and  his  son,  Samuel. 

Jeremiah  Neal  married Martin,  Oct.  23,  1720. 

(P'rom  Wells,  Me.,  records.) 

Andrew  Neal  of  Berwick  and  Jean  Hubbard,  published 
July  25,  1778. 

(From  records  at  Newcastle,  N.  H.) 

Richard  Neal,  b.  1762. 

Abigail  Neal,  b.  1766.  Whose  children  they  were  does  not 
appear 

William  Neal  and  Hepsabeth  Marden,  published  (or 
married)  P^eb.  6,  1777. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

William,  b.  ,  1786. 

Mary,  b.  ,  1793. 

Sarah,  b.  ,  1796. 

(From  a  MS.  loaned  by  Mrs.  Mary  Neal  Hanaford  of  Chad- 
wick,    111.        It    is   certainly    incorrect    in  some    particulars,  but 


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apparently  right  in  most  others  )  It  runs,  in  substance,  but 
condensed,  as  follows  :  "  Cajit.  Walter  Xeil  emigrated  from  Bed- 
ford, lingland,  and  settled  in  Greenland  (N.  H.)  about  1623." 
(The  real,  original  Captain  Walter  Neale  did  not  come  to  this 
country  until  1630,  and  did  not  "settle"  here  at  all.  Possibly  the 
"1623"  should  be  "1653,"  and  then  the  reference  might,  in  that 
case,  be  to  him  whom  we  have  styled  "  Capt.  Walter  Xeale,  2d.") 
We  resume  the  MS.  record  : — ' 

"C.VPT.  Neil  m. . 


THKIR    CHILDREN. 

Samuel,  b. . 

,  a  daughter  who  married  a  Philbnck,  and  died  quite 

early. 

S.VMUEL  Neil  m.  Jane  Philbrick ;  another  account  says 
Jane  Foss. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Samuel,  m.  Locke,  and  lived  in  Greenland. 

John,  m.  Whitten. 

Walter,  b.  1692;  d.  April  17,  1755;  m.  Jan.  11,  1715,  Ann 
Mattoon  (b.  1694;  d.  1766). 

Joshua,  m    Abigail  Haines,  and  settletl  in  Stratham. 

Jeremiah,  m.  Martin,    and    settled    in    Saco."       It  is 

thought  by  some  that  the  Neals  of  Portland,  Me.,  are  ilescend- 
ants  of  this  couple. 

W.\LTER  Neil  m.  Ann  Mattoon.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Richard  Mattoon  of  ICxcter,  and  was  of  Scotch  descent.  [Bel- 
knap says  that  Richard  Mattoon  and  his  son  Mubertas  were 
killed  by  the  Indians  in  the  summer  of  1706]. 

Tiii:iR  ciiildri:n. 

Hubartus,  b.  Oct.  22,  1717;  d.  Occ.  13,  1S05;  marrieil  Mary 
Perkins. 

Samuel,  b.  March  26,  1720;  d.  April  S.  1760;  married  Cath- 
erine Burleigh. 

John,  b.  April  5,  1722;  d.  Jan.  27,  1S06;  married  Lvdia 
Wiggin. 


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Anne,  1).  Sept.  i,  1724;  d.  1736- 

Ebenezef,  b.  Jan.  18,  1726;  d.  April  15,  1805;  married  (ist) 
Lydia  Clark  ;  (2d)  Eliza  Perkins. 

Walter,  b.  June  22,  1731  ;  d.  April  23,  1820;  married  Lydia 
Porson. 

Deborah,  b.  Nov.  14,  1733  ;  m.  Walter  Wiggin. 

Ann,  b.  Nov.  13,  1736;  m.  Joshua  Robinson. 

Capt.   Hubartus  m.  Mary  Perkins. 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Bartholomew,  b.  July  17,  1748;  d.  in  infancy. 

Hubartus,  Jr„  b.  Jan.  23,  1752  ;  d.  May  8,  1807  ;  married  Dec. 
II,  1774,  Mary  Smith,  dau.  of  Col.  Joseph  and  Mary  (Glidden) 
Smith  of  Newmarket 

Molly,  b.  Oct.  6,  1756;  d.  1760. 

Capt.  Hubartus  and  wife,  with  their  son  Hubartus,  Jr.,  and 
his  wife,  were  interred  in  the  old  cemetery  near  Rockingham 
Junction,  N.  H. 

Hubartus,  Jr.,  m.  Mary  Smith. 

THEIR     CHILDREN. 

John  Glidden,  b.  Sept.  3,  1775;  d.  July  13,  1859;  m.  Eliza- 
beth Leavitt,  Sept.  11,  1806. 

Mary,  b.  May  20,  1777  ;  d.  at  age  of  5  years. 

Sarah,  b.  Dec.  i,  1780;  d.  1870,  aged  about  90. 

Mary,  b.  Dec.  7,  1784  ;  m.  Joseph  Merrill  d.  Oct.  23,  1829. 

Joseph,  b.  April  27,  1788  ;  m.  Olive  R.  Hill ;  d.  April  27,  181 5. 

Andrew,  b.  May  16,  1792  ;  m.  Sarah  Bowker;  d.  . 

Ebenezer  H„  b.  Oct.  13,  1797;  m.  Mary  Tarleton  ;  d.  April 
7,   1876. 

John  Glidden  Niel  m.  Elizabeth  Leavitt. 
[  We  learn  that  he  adopted  the  spelling   "  Niel,"  in  prefer- 
ence to  "  Neal,"  or  "  Neil."] 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Mary  Ann  Smith,  b. ;  m.  Solomon  W.  Bates  ;  d. 

Nov.  1 1,  1S42. 


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Caroline  L„  b. ;  m.  (i)  Moses  Jewett  in  1S31  ;  (2) 

I.  S.  Weston  in  1852  ;  is  in  her  90th  year  (in  1899). 

John  L,  b. ;   m.  Pauline    Raymond  ;   d.   May  22, 

Sarah  G„  b. ;  m.  A.  H.  Oilman  ;  d.  July  29,  1855. 

Elizabeth  L,  b. ;  m.  Geo.  F.  Talbot,  1844  ;  d.  June 

28,  1845. 

Helen  Niel,  b.  — — ;  m.  James  Howard,  July  24,  1861. 

[I  am  indebted  to  Mrs.  Howard  for  aversion  of  the  Xeal 
Genealogy,  by  means  of  which  I  have  been  able  to  supplement 
and  extend  the  genealogy  received  from  Mrs.  Hanaford. 

I  have  already  pointed  out  the  mistakes  in  the  first  part  of 
this  genealogy  ;  the  main  portion  tallies  with  a  will  of  Walter 
Neal,  dated  April  15,  1755,  proved  on  April  22,  same  year,  and 
recorded  in  the  probate  office  at  Exeter,  X.  H.  There,  however, 
the  family  name  is  spelled  "  Neal,"  instead  of  "  Neil,"  or  "Xiel." 

Should  we  adopt  the  very  possible  hypothesis  that  "  Capt. 
Walter  X^eil  "  above  named  was  identical  witli  him  whom  we 
have  previously  styled  "  Capt.  Walter  Xeal,  2d,"  and  that  he 
actually  came  from  Bedford,  England,  he  may  have  been  related 
to  John  Xeal  of  Dean,  Bedford  Co.,  of  whom  we  ha\e  spoken 
before]. 

(  From  Dearborn's  "  Hist,  of  Parsonsfield,  Me."  ) 
Walter  and  Enoch  Neal  went  from    Newmarket,  X.   H.,  to 
Parsonsfield,  Me.,  in  1785. 

Walter  Ne.\l  m. . 

THEIR    CHIEDKEN. 

Walter,  m.  Shores. 

Children: — Creighton,  Joseph,  and  William,  the  latter  a 
resident  of  Newmarket. 

In  1785,  Walter  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for  incorporation 
of  the  town  of  Parsonsfield. 

ExocH  Neal,  b.  in  Xewmarket  in  1762;  in.  Nancy  Towle 
in  1788;  d.  in  Parsonsfield,  181 7. 


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TllKIK    CHILDREN. 


Betsey,  b.  1790. 

Joshua,  b.  1792. 

Sally,  b.  1795. 

Oliver,  b.  1797  ;  lived  in  Tuftonboro'. 

Enoch,  b.  1803. 

Nathaniel,  b.  1808  (  ?  )  ;  lived  in  Tuftonboro'. 

Nancy,  b.  1814. 

(  Enoch's  wife,  Nancy  T.  Neal,  was  sister  to  the  wife  of 
Horace  Piper,  author  of  "  Piper  Genealogy,"  a  work  of  great 
value.) 

(P"rom  Lancaster's  "Hist,  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H.") 
In  1727,  Walter  Neal  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
township  of  Gilmanton,  claiming  under  the  charter  dated  May 
20,  1727,  and  signed  by  Gov.  John  Wentworth.  It  does  not 
appear,  however,  that  Neal  was  then,  or  later,  a  resident  of  the 
town  of  Gilmanton. 

( P^rom  records  at  Exeter,  N.  PI.) 

Jan.  21,  1812,  Walter  and  Enoch  Neal  of  Parsonsfield, 
Joshua  Neal  of  Portsmouth,  and  Nathaniel  Neal  of  Exeter,  sons 
and  heirs  of  Walter  Neal,  the  elder,  of  Newmarket,  convey  to 
their  brother,  Eliphalet,  all  their  right  and  title  to  the  estate  of 
their  father,  Walter  Neal,  the  elder,  aforesaid.  At  this  time,  both 
their  parents  were  living. 

[The  Joshua  here  mentioned,  otherwise  called  "Captain 
Joshua,"  sometimes  described  as  "  merchant,"  at  other  times  as 
"mariner,"  lived  in  Portsmouth.  He  died  in  1831,  at  the  age  of 
64,  and  his  widow  Nancy  administered  his  estate. 

We  may  add  that  "Walter  Neal,  the  elder,"  named  in  the 
document,  was  doubtless  the  son  of  Walter  and  Ann  (Mattoon) 
Neal  (or  Neil),  and  was  born  June  22,  1731,  and  died  on  April 
23,  1820,  as  previously  stated]. 

In  1748,  William  Neal  was  appointed  administrator  of  the 
estate  of  his  father,  the  late  Richard  Neal  of  Newcastle,  N.  H. 

A  deed  dated  Dec,  1729,  shows  that  Joshua  Neal  of  Strat- 
ham  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Samuel  Haines  of  Greenland. 


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(  From  "York  Deeds,"  Maine.) 

Dec.  5,  1694,  John  Neale,  Senior,  and  Joan,  his  wife, 
executed  a  deed  to  their  son  Andrew.  Jan.  12,  1712,  Andrew 
Neale  and  Katherine,  his  wife,  executed  a  deed. 

April  10,  Abigail  Xeale  witnessed  a  deed. 

(From  old  records,  in  Ridlon's  book.) 
Andrew  Neale  m.  Katherine . 

THEIR    CHILDREN. 

Katherine,  b.  Dec.  4,  1695. 
John,  b.  Oct.  I,  1698. 

Andrew,  b.  May  4,  1701. 
Hannah,  b.  May  2,  1704. 
Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  20,  1706. 
Mary,  b.  Aug.  17,  1708. 
James,  b.  May  4,  171 1  ;  d.  Aug.  31,  1730. 
Tax-payers  in  Elliott  (Kittery.): — 

In  1780,  Widow  Patience  Xeal,  James  Neal  and  son.  Samuel 
Neal,  John  Niall. 

(From  Runnells'  Hist,  of  Sanbornton,  X.  II.,  supplemented 
by  Mrs.  Hanaford's  MS.) 

S.VMUEL  Ne.-vl  of  Stratham  m.  I'Llizabeth  Haley  of  Kittery, 
Feb.  7,  1754. 

their  children. 

John,  b. ;  m.  Ray  of  Meredith,  moved  to  St. 

Albans,  \'t.,  had  two  sons  who  went  to  Ohio,  and  settled  there. 

Deborah,  m.  Small,  and  settled  in  Limington,  Me. 
Another  daughter  m.  Cheney,  and  settled  in  Me. 

Joseph,  b.  in  Kittery,  March  23,  1762,  brought  up  in  Stratham, 
removetl  to  .Meredith,  and  d.  there  March  2^,  18^1,  aged  exactly 
89.  He  m.  Hannah  Smith  of  Meredith,  who  was  b.  March  2^, 
1771  ;  d.  March  24,  1851. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Xeal  :  — 
William,  b.  March  11,  1789;  d.  Jan.  29.  1830. 
John,  b.  Oct.  20,  1790  ;  d.  Sept.  30,  1864  ;  m.  Mead.    Children, 
Darius,  D.  J.,  John,  Martha,  Maria,  Harriett. 


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Betsey,  b.   Sept.  i8,   1793;   d ;    m.   Richard  Neal. 

Children  —  Charles  and  Joseph. 

Mary,  b.  Sept.  15,  1795  ;  d.  April  i,  1S79. 

Joseph,  b.  Nov.  II,  1797  ;  d.  Dec.  25,  1854  ;  m. . 

Children  —  William,  Smith,  and  Lydia. 

Hannah  S„  b.  Sept.  15,  1799;  d.  March  19,  1835. 

Smith,  b.  Feb.  16,  1806;  d.  Dec.  15,  1887;  m.  S.  Elizabeth 
Smith.  One  child  —  Mary  E.,  m.  Hanaford.  Mrs.  Hanaford 
has  sent  me  genealogical  items  of  value. 

Nancy,  b.  Sept.  15,  1810;  d.  March  19,  1854;  m,  Wiggin. 
No  children. 

Irene,  b.  Sept.  26,  1813  ;  m.  Charles  Smith.     No  children. 

(From  records,  Greenland,  N.  H.) 

Rev.  James  Armstrong  Neal,  born  in  Londonderry,  in 
1774,  died  in  Greenland,  N.  H.,  in  1808.  He  was  the  third  pastor 
of  the  Cong.  Church  in  Greenland. 

Joseph  Clay  Neal,  his  son,  born  in  Greenland,  Feb.  3,  1807  ; 
died  in  Philadelphia,  July  5,  1848.  He  was  editor,  author,  and 
humorist,  and  married,  in  1846,  Emily  Bradley,  afterwards  called 
"Alice  Bradley." 

She  wrote  extensively  under  the  pseudonym  of  "  Cousin 
Alice,"  and  edited  the  "Philadelphia  Saturday  Gazette,"  for 
several  years  after  the  decease  of  her  husband,  its  editor.  Both 
husband  and  wife  were  very  talented. 

John  Neal  was  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  Aug.  25,  1793  ;  died 
there  on  June  20,  1876.  His  parents  were  Friends.  He  became 
a  successful  teacher,  lawyer,  lecturer,  and  author.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Maryland  in  18 19,  and  for  a  time  practiced 
law  in  Baltimore.  He  published  some  20  or  more  volumes  of 
novels,  essays,  etc.      He  led  a  very  active  literary  life. 

(  From  C.  Neal  Barney,  Esq.,  Boston,  Mass.) 

Andrew  Neal  married  Dorcas .     He  died  1757,  and 

she  1791. 

THEIR    children. 

James,  Quaker  preacher  at  Elliot,  Me.     He  married . 


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TIIKIR     CIIILDKEX. 


Stephen,  lived  in  Elliot. 

John,-b.  1763;  d.  1794.     Schoolmaster  in  Portland. 

James,  unmarried  ;  d.,  aged  64. 

Of  these  three  sons, — 

John  married . 

TIIKIK    CIIILDKKN. 

John,  b.  1793  ;  d.  1876;  poet.  He  is  the  John  Xeal  of  i'orl- 
land,  above  mentioned,  the  lawyer  and  author. 

( From  Mr.  li.  S.  Ruggles,  Wakefield,  Mass.) 

John  Neal,  lawyer,  of  Portsmouth. 

[I  suspect  that  he  was  the  son  of  Walter  and  Ann  (Mattoon) 
Neal,  or  Neil,  and  was  born  in  Newmarket,  N.  II.,  on  Ajiril  5, 
1722,  as  previously  noted]. 

John  Nkal  married  Mary  Leavitt  of  Hamjjton.  X.  11. 
descendant  of  Thos.  Leavitt  of  E.xeter,  who  d.  in  1696. 

■nii:iK    ClIIMiKKX. 

Moses  Leavitt  Neal  Mved  in  Londonderry  and  Dover  ;  lawyer, 
and  Clerk  of  "  N.  II.  House  of  Representatives"  for  13  years. 
He  was  born  in  Hampton,  N.  II.,  m  1767  ;  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1785.  and  died  in  Dover,  Nov.  25,  1829. 

MosE-S  L.,  m  (1st)  Patty  Prentice,  (2d)  Sarah  l'"urbish. 

(CI11M)KK.\    i;V    FIRST     WIFE). 

Mary  Cheney,  b.  June  9,  181 5;  m.  Gershom  C.  Ruggles  of 
Rutland,  \'t.,  son  of  Maj.  John  Ruggles. 

This  couple  IkuI  children  as  follows:  — 

John  Leavitt  Ruggles,  b.  March  27,  1836;  m.  ICli/a  1).  Roberts. 

Moses,  b.  (  )cl.  14,  1S39. 

Julia  Bissonelte,  m.  Wilbur  V.  Parker. 

Sarah  Prentice,  lu.  Dr.  Iknry  II.  Pierce. 

Clarissa  Jane, 

I  have  learned  of  a  John  Ni.ai..  liorn  in  .Soiuli  Pcrwick, 
who,  about  the  year  1803,  went  into  the  wilds  of  Maine,  to  build 
a  home  for  himself.       He  was  the  founder  of  a  branch  of  the 


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Neal  family.  A  descendant,  Hannah  Neal,  married  Silas  Hall, 
son  of  Hatevil  Hall  of  Dover,  N.  H.  Their  descendants  are 
quite  numerous.  By  the  way,  Dover  records  make  mention  of  a 
father,  a  son,  and  a  grandson,  each  bearing  the  unique  name 
"  Hatevil  Hall."  Among  the  descendants  of  John  Neal,  are 
reckoned  Joshua  Neal  of  Hallovvell,  Sheldon  H.  Gardner  of 
Riv^erside,  Mrs.  J.  O.  Johnson  of  Liberty,  Walter  I.  Neal  of 
Bangor,  and  A.  K.  P.  Buffum  of  Gardiner,  Me.,  with  Mrs.  F.  D. 
Hall,  Newtonville,  David  Neal  of  Dedham,  and  Alonzo  Neal  of 
Salem,  Mass. 

I  am  sorry  to  be  unable  to  present  fuller  details  concerning 
this  branch  of  the  Neal  family. 

Elishajohn  Neale  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  thinks  that  he  himself  is 
descended  from  John  Neale  of  Salem,  Mass. 

In  conclusion,  I  trust  that  these  fragmentary  sketches  of 
families  will  prove  of  interest  to  some  one.  To  combine  and 
supplement  them,  and  produce  a  complete,  accurate,  and  symmet- 
rical history  of  the  Neal  Family,  one  would  need  to  be  endowed 
with  a  kind  of  genealogical  omniscience,  a  gift  which  I  neither 
possess  nor  claim  —  in  which  disavowal  the  reader  who  has 
perused  my  little  book  will,  no  doubt,  cheerfully  acquiesce. 


RICKER    FAMILY, 


The  name  of  this  family  appears  under  different  forms.  We 
find  it  spelled  Riccar,  Riker,  Ryker,  Rickord,  and  Ricker.  Prob- 
ably the  Scotch  names,  Rickard  and  Rickards,  with  Rickert, 
Record,  and  perhaps  Ricardo,  are  mere  variations. 

As  to  the  origin  of  the  family,  all  known  circumstances 
seem  to  indicate  the  northern  part  of  Germany  as  the  starting; 
point.  Thence,  it  would  seem,  the  family,  or  at  least  a  portion 
of  it,  moved  down  into  Saxony,  whence,  later,  they  crossed  over 
to  the  Isle  of  Jersey.  From  this  latter  locality,  some  of  them 
emigrated  to  America.  We  quote  Mr.  E.  H.  Ricker,  the  histo- 
rian and  genealogist  of  the  family  :  "  The  Rickers  are  of  ancient 
lineage,  descending  from  the  feudal  and  knightly  family  of 
Ricc.vK  in  Sa.xony  in  the  fourteenth  century.  The  Sa.xon 
Riccars,  drifting  across  the  face  of  Europe,  settled  in  later  times 
on  the  island  of  Jersey,  and  thence  came  the  first  Riccars  in  this 
country  —  two  brothens,  Gkokge  and  Matukix,  arriving  about 
the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  settling  at  Dover,  X. 
II."  We  are  told  that,  within  the  last  25  years,  some  Riccars 
have  come  from  Germany  to  this  country.  If  related  to  the 
American  Rickers,  the  relationship  is  probably  very  remote. 

Geokc.k  Ricki:k  is  believed  to  have  come  over  at  the 
instance,  perhaps  at  the  e.\|)ense,  of  I'arson  Reyner,  pastor  at 
Dover,  1655  to  1669.  At  any  rate,  George  was  found  at  Cocheco, 
now  Dover,  in  1670.  lie  was  as.sessed  as  a  ta.\-payer  in  1672. 
Me  seems  to  have  been  devotedly  attached  to  his  younger 
brother,  M.\tlm<i.\,  the  expense  of  whose  coming  to  this  country 
he  paid  out  of  his  earliest  earnings.  H(.th  brothers  married,  and 
had  children.       Both   settled  in    Dover,    X    II,  m    its  inum-di.ite 


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vicinity;  and  both  were  killed  by  the  Indians  on  June  4,  1706. 
Rev.  John  Pike,  pastor  at  Dover  from  about  1677  to  1709-10^ 
gives  in  his  "Journal"  (see  Qiiint's  edition,  p.  30),  which  is  still 
preserved,  the  following  account  of  the  sad  tragedy:  "George 
Riccar  and  Maturin  Riccar,  of  Cocheco,  were  slain  by  the  Indians. 
George  was  killed  while  running  up  the  lane  near  the  garrison  ; 
Maturin  was  killed  in  his  field,  and  his  little  son  (Noah)  carried 
away."  The  "garrison"  spoken  of  was  Heard's,  and  the  "lane"" 
was  what  is  now  the  cross  road  at  the  southern  base  of  Garrison 
Hill.  We  may  add  here  that  the  little  boy  was  carried  to  Canada,, 
where  he  grew  to  manhood,  and  became  a  Catholic  priest,  never 
returning  to  his  former  home  and  friends. 

As  we  are  not  attempting  a  complete  history  of  the  Ricker 
family,  but  undertake  to  trace  chiefly  a  single  branch  of  it  —  that 
to  which  we  ascribe  our  own  individual  lineage  —  it  may  be  suffi- 
cient to  say  that  the  name  of  Maturin's  wife  is  unknown.  He 
left  at  least  four  children  —  Matunn,  Jr,,  Joseph,  Noah,  mentioned 
above,  and  Sarah, 

Maturin,  Jr.,  m.  Lucy  VVallingford,  and  had  six  children. 

Joseph  m.  (i)  Elizabeth  Garland;  (2)  Mary  May.  He 
settled  at  first  in  Somersworth,  N.  H.,  and  later  in  Berwick^ 
Me.  They  had  nine  children.  In  his  will  dated  Jan.  19,  1771, 
he  bequeathed  a  large  amount  of  property  situated  in  the  two 
towns  to  his  surviving  children.  He  was  a  man  of  large  wealth 
and  influence,  and  his  progeny  is  wide-spread. 

Noah,  as  we  have  said,  remained  in  Canada,  and  died  there. 

Sarah,  aged  about  4  years  at  the  time  of  her  father's  tragic 
end,  m.  John,  grandson  of  the  emigrant  John  Wingate,  who, 
more  than  two  centuries  since,  settled  on  the  "  Wingate  place  " 
in  Dover.  Some  of  the  descendants  of  Sarah  and  John  are  still 
to  be  found,  as  we  are  informed. 

The  descendants  of  Maturin,  the  emigrant,  are  numerous 
in  our  own  time.  In  his  line  are  reckoned  many  individuals 
eminent  in  the  several  professions,  and  in  various  departments  of 
business  life  Some  of  these  we  shall  have  occasion  to  mention 
as  we  proceed.  Maturin's  line  has  been,  and  is  to-day,  an  hon- 
orable and  influential  one.  And  it  is  with  sincere  regret  that  we 
are  constrained  by  the  limits  of  our  book  to  pause  at  this  point 


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in  tracing  the  genealogy  of  the  younger  emigrant.  W'c  must  be 
content  to  give  a  sketch  of  the  family  and  later  posterity  of  the 
older  only  of  the  two  brothers,  Gkokgk,  the  emigrant. 

FIRST    GKXKRATIOX. 

For  obvious  reasons  we  place  Gi:oi<(;k  Rickkk  at  the  head 
of  the  list. 

This  pioneer  married  I'^leanor  I'^vans.  Iler  father  had  been 
killed  by  the  Indians,  having  been,  it  is  said,  chained  by  them  to 
Mr.  Waldron's  barn,  and  burned  together  with  the  building. 
[This  unfortunate  victim  of  savage  ferocity  was  apparently  John 
Evans.  Dr.  Quint  in  his  edition  of  Pike's  Journal,  pp.  i2,  13, 
notes,  says  that  the  Evans  who  was  killed  by  the  Indians  on  June 
28,  1689,  at  the  same  time  with  Major  Waldron  and  some  20 
others,  was  certainly  not  the  emigrant  Robert  Evans,  but  was 
probably  John,  to  whom,  on  March  16,  1672-3,  Major  Waldron 
had  deeded  land  in  Cocheco.  So  that  Eleanor  ICvans  was  prob- 
ably the  daughter  of  this  John. 

Whether  these  Dover  Evanses  were  related  to  David  Evans 
of  Concord,  N.  H.,  whose  daughter  our  ancestor,  Thom.as  Pipkr, 
married,  we  cannot  say,  but  we  think  there  is  little  doubt  of  it. 

We  may  add  that  Robert  Evans,  Senior,  the  emigr.uit.  died 
in  Dover,  on  Feb.  27,  1696-7.     Pike's  Journal,  p.  19.] 

SECOND  GICXERATIOX. 
Gkokc^h  Rickek  married  I^leanor  ICvans. 

TIIKIK    ClllLDKKN. 

The  children  of  this  couple  were  nine  m  number: 

Judith,  b.  Feb.  i,  168 1.  On  July  26,  1696,  she  was  captured 
by  the  Indians;  but  she  either  was  released,  or  escajK-d,  for,  on 
A\n\\  14,  1699,  she  was  married  to  Thomas  llorne.  She  had 
four  children  — Sarah,  Ichabod,  Thomas,  and  William.  Some 
of  her  posterity  are  still  flourishing. 

John,  b.  April  i,  1682-,  d.  . 

Mary,  b.  March  22,  1685.  She  was  with  her  father  when  he 
was   killed,  but,   though    fired   at.  she  escaped  by  Heet  running. 


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She  married  William  Twombly,  grandson  of  the  emigrant  Ralph 
Tvvombly. 

Maturin,  b.  Feb.  i,  1686;  d. . 

Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  8,  1690.  Probably  married,  first,  Barthol- 
omew Stevenson,  Jr.,  had  by  him  a  daughter,  Deborah,  who 
married  Benjamin  Went  worth.  Stevenson  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  in  1709,  and  his  widow  married  an  Abbott,  by  whom  she 
had  several  children. 

Hannah,  b.  May  12,  1693.  Married  William  Jones,  and  had 
three  children —  Eleanor,  William,  and  Hannah. 

Ephraim,  b.  Feb.  15,  1696;  d . 

Eleanor,  b.  Feb.  15,  1699;  married  Benjamin  Stanton,  who 
came  from  England.  They  had  several  children,  among  whom 
was  Benjamin,  Jr.,  who  married  his  cousin,  Eleanor  Jones,  above 
mentioned.  From  this  couple,  descended  the  late  Prof.  Benjamin 
Stanton  of  Union  College,  N.  Y.,  Prof.  Levi  W.  Stanton,  formerly 
of  New  Hampton  Institute,  N.  H.,  and  Prof.  Jonathan  Y.  Stan- 
ton, now  of  Bates  College,  Lewiston,  Me. 

George,  b.  Feb.  10,  1702  ;  married  Jemima  Busby. 

THIRD  GENERATION. 

JoHX  RiCKER,  son  of  George,  the  emigrant,  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Jabez  and  Dorcas  Garland.  To  this  couple 
were  born  14  children,  named  as  follows  :  Elizabeth,  Olive,  Judith, 
Phineas,  Nathaniel,  Benjamin  {  died  in  childhood),  Lydia  (died  in 
infancy ),  Benjamin,  2d,  Paul,  Lydia,  2d,  Ebenezer,  Daniel,  John, 
and  Hannah,  The  first  of  these  was  born  in  1716.  the  list  in 
1744.  Most  of  them  appeared  to  have  married,  and  i-eared 
families,  but  our  knowledge  of  them  is  quite  meager. 

Maturin,  another  son  of  George,  married  Hannah,  daughter 
of  George  and  Mary  Hunt  of  Newington.  They  had  12  children, 
the  oldest  born  in  1713,  the  youngest  in  1736  Children's 
names:  Abigail,  Mary,  George,  Maturin  (b.  July  23,  1719), 
Richard,  Bridget,  Reuben,  Dorcas,  Hannah,  Samuel,  Bildad,  and 
Mercy, 

(  Dover  records  give  "  Beiley,"  a  daughter,  instead  of  Bildad,) 


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Ephraim,  third  son  of  George,  the  emigrant,  married  (ist) 
Dorcas,  daughter  of  Jabez  and  Dorcas  Garland ;  (2d)  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Gershom  Wentworth,  and  grand-daughter 
of  Elder  William  Wentworth,  of  Dover,  X.  11.  Children,  by 
first  wife  :  Tamsen,  Jonathan,  Eleanor,  Dorcas,  Nicholas,  Mary, 
Moses,  Aaron,  Sarah,  Lemuel,  Miriam,  and  Ezekiel,  twelve  in 
number. 

Ephraim  lived  in  Somersworth,  N.  H. 

George,  Jr.,  fourth  son  of  the  emigrant,  married  Jemima 
Busby,  and  lived  in  Berwick,  Me.  Children :  Ephraim,  Daniel, 
James,  Dolly,  Betty,  and  Polly.  Concerning  most  of  these,  little 
is  known. 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 

[The  necessary  limits  of  our  work  will  prevent  our  following 
out  all  the  foregoing  genealogical  lines  in  detail.  We  give  a  few 
of  them  in  a  condensed  form.] 

Phineas,  son  of  John,  and  grandson  of  George,  the  emi- 
grant, married  (ist)  Tamsen  Riggs  ;  (2d)  Mrs.  Deborah  Miller, 
daughter  of  John  and  Del^orah  Roberts.  By  the  two  wives  he 
had  seven  children. 

Nathaniel,  his  brother,  married  Mercy,  daughter  of  Sylva- 
nus  and  Sarah  Nock  (Knoxj.  He  moved  to  Newcastle,  Me.  ; 
had  four  children. 

Paul,  another  brother,  married  Abigail  Hodgdon.  He  had 
five  children;  he  died  by  drowning. 

Daniel,  a  fourth  brother,  married  Lvicy  Cromwell,  and  eight 
children  were  born  to  them. 

George,  son  of  Maturin,  and  grandson  of  Geokije,  the 
emigrant,  married  Mary  Randall,  they  had  eight  children. 

Matl'Rix,  his  brother,  and,  of  course,  grandson  to  George, 
the  emigrant,  married  Lois  Downs  of  Somersworth,  in  1749. 
They  moved  to  Newcastle,  Me.,  and  later  toWells,  where  they  lived 
and  died.  They  had  si.\  children  —  Solomon,  Stephen,  and  four 
daughters,  the  names  of  three  of  the  latter  not  being  certainly 
known  to  the  wrilier.  However,  the  old  records  at  Wells,  Me., 
contain  the  publishment  of  Thomas  Wormwood  and  Mary  Picker, 


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both  of  Wells,  in  June,  1770;  of  Roger  Littlefield  and  Anna 
Ricker,  June,  1771  ;  of  Nathaniel  Treadwell  and  Phebe  Ricker, 
July,  1772 ;  and  of  Charles  White  of  Coxhall  (Lyman)  and 
Hannah  Ricker,  of  Wells,  in  July,  1779.  '  It  is  presumed  that  these 
four  brides  were  all  daughters  of  Maturin,  last  mentioned,  as  one 
of  them,  Anna,  is  known  to  have  been,  [^'grandson  of  Maturin, 
Charles  F.  Ricker,  has  furnished  the  writer  with  a  most  thrilling 
account  of  the  experiences  of  Maturin  and  his  family  in  one  of 
the  later  Indian  raids.  The  time  referred  to  was  the  latter  part 
of  August,  1762.  Maturin,  with  his  wife  and  six  children,  lived 
on  the  north  branch  of  Little  River,  near  a  place  called  "  Har- 
risickett."  The  stream  flowed  between  his  home  and  the  settle- 
ment with  its  garrison-houses.  On  the  eventful  evening,  near 
midnight,  the  family  were  startled  by  the  violent  barking  of 
their  faithful  watch  dog.  It  was  known  that  an  Indian  had  been 
seen  lurking  near.  The  peril  was  imminent  ;  an  attack  by  the 
savages  was  plainly  impending.  Mr.  Ricker  bade  his  wife  dress 
the  children  with  all  speed,  and  prepare  for  instant  flight.  Mean- 
while, in  order  to  gain  time,  he,  being  an  athletic  and  courageous 
man,  took  his  gun  in  his  hand,  and  drew  near  the  place  where 
the  Indians  were  hidden.  He  called  to  them,  telling  them  that 
he  knew  their  purpose,  and,  reminding  them  of  his  well-known 
physical  prowess,  assured  them  that,  in  case  they  made  the 
attack,  some  of  them  must  die.  Instantly  his  ears  were  saluted 
with  the  most  dreadful,  blood-curdling  whoops  and  yells  which 
mortal  ears  ever  heard.  Rushing  back  to  the  house,  he  caught 
up  his  two  youngest  children,  and  taking  one  upon  his  shoulder, 
the  other  in  his  arms,  he,  followed  by  his  family,  quickly  and 
noiselessly  made  their  escape  over  the  bridge  across  the  stream, 
and  presently  succeeded  in  gaining  the  shelter  of  the  garrison. 
As  the  family  looked  back  after  crossing  the  stream,  they  beheld 
their  home  in  flames  at  the  hands  of  the  savages.  The  family 
lost  all  their  goods,  save  the  clothing  they  wore,  and  one  cow 
which  the  Indians  failed  to  discover.  Similar,  and  even  far 
greater,  misfortunes  befell  the  early  settlers  in  unnumbered 
instances.  Would  our  space  permit,  we  should  not  fail  to  recount 
many  and  many  a  tale  and  tradition  of  those  early  times  which 
"tried  men's  souls."] 


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We  may  be  permitted  to  add  that  this  Maturiii  was  grandson 
to  the  earliest  George,  and  was  grandfather  to  the  grandmother 
(on  the  father's  side)  of  the  writer  of  these  pages.  To  put  it 
more  concisely,  my  grandmother's  grandfather,  Matl'kin,  was 
the  grandson  of  George,  the  emigrant. 

Richard  Ricker,  br6ther  of  the  last  named  Maturin,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Carter,  and  moved  to  Berwick,  Me.,  where  he  passed 
his  life.  To  this  couple  were  born  the  goodly  number  of  ten 
children. 

Reuben,  another  brother,  married  Elizabeth  Randall,  and 
died  in  Canada  during  the  war.     They  had  four  children. 

Nicholas,  son  of  Ephpim,  of  Somersworth,  and  grand.son 
of  George,  the  emigrant,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  Twombly.     They  had  three  children. 

Moses,  brother  of  Nicholas,  was  a  soldier  in  the  old  French 
war,  and  he  served  with  the  army  at  Crown  Point.  He  married 
Sobriety  Nock,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Ricker)  Nock 
(Knox).  Her  mother  was  a  grand-daughter  of  the  first  George 
Ricker.     This  couple  had  nine  children. 

Aaron,  another  brother, -married  Mary  Nock  (Knox),  and 
had  seven  children. 

Lemuel,  another  brother,  married  Dorothy,  sister  of 
Sobriety  Nock  (Knox)  above  mentioned.  To  these  parents  were 
born  nine  children. 

Ephraim,  son  of  George,  Jr.,  and  grandson  of  George  the 
emigrant,  married  Susannah  Leighton.  He  moved  from  Som- 
ersworth, N.  H.,  to  Berwick,  Me.  They  had  seven  children,  one 
of  whom,  Daniel,  was  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  preached  in 
Warren  and  Freedom,  Me. 


FIFTH  GENERATION. 

Solomon,  son  of  Maturin,  and  great-grandson  of  the  first 
George,  married  Jane  Wormwood  of  Wells,  on  Dec.  28,  1769. 
The  Wells  records  give  her  name,  in  one  instance,  as  "Ann," 
but  this  may  have  been  a  mistake  of  tiie  clerk;  or  she  may  have 


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borne  both  of  these  names.  This  couple  had  issue  as  follows  : 
Lois,  born  Sept.  — ,  1770,  and  died  in  Tuftonboro',  N.  H.,  Jan.  3, 
1854  ;  Solomon,  bapt.  Nov.  8,  1772  ;  Ephraim  Downs,  bapt.  Aug. 
21,  1775  ;  Stephen,  bapt.  April  21,  1776.  These  names  of  the 
children  of  Solomon  and  Jane  Ricker,  except  the  first,  I  copied 
from  the  Wells  town  and  church  records.  Family  tradition, 
however,  mentions  the  following  other  children  of  the  couple  : 
Three  Josephs,  one  of  whom  I  remember  seeing,  Eben,  Samuel, 
John  and  Mary,  the  latter  of  whom,  we  are  told,  married  Asa 
Drew.  Doubtless  the  reason  why  these  latter  names  do  not 
appear  in  the  Wells  records  is  the  fact  that  Solomon  and  his 
wife  Jane  had  removed  from  the  town  before  the  birth  of  the  last 
seven  children.  They  evidently  resided  in  Alfred,  or  in  the 
vicmity,  in  1784  to  1792,  as  Solomon  Ricker  owned  a  pew  in  the 
Congregational  Church  there,  at  that  time.  And  there  is  docu- 
mentary evidence  that,  in  1795,  they  were  residents  of  Coxhall, 
now  Lyman.  T  he  explanation,  probably,  is  that  the  family  lived 
in  that  part  of  Lyman  nearest  to  Alfred,  so  that  they  could  con 
veniently  attend  church  in  the  latter  town. 

Lois,  above-mentioned,  married  William  Haley  of  Alfred 
(or  Kittery),  about  1790,  and  bore  to  him  eight  children  —  four 
sons  and  four  daughters. 

(  For  further  particulars,  see  "Haley  Family,"  within.) 

The  writer  well  remembers,  when  a  boy,  hearing  Grand- 
mother Lois  relate  thrilling  tales  of  Indian  fights,  and  the  hard- 
ships of  the  early  settlers.  In  particular,  he  recalls  hearing  her 
speak  of  the  Hessian  prisoners  of  both  sexes,  whom  she  saw 
marching  through  the  streets  of  the  place  where  she  then  lived, 
as  they  were  being  conducted  to  the  place  of  temporary  deten- 
tion. Winter  Hill,  near  Boston.  Her  description  of  their  garb, 
equipments,  and  appearance  was  most  vivid  and  life-like. 

[It  will  be  recollected  that  Frederick  II.  of  Hesse-Cassell, 
Prussia,  became  a  convert  to  Romanism. 

This  licentious  despot  is  reputed,  Mr.  Lowell  says,  to  have 
been  the  father  of  "more  than  a  hundred  children!"  His  son, 
Count  William  of  Hesse-Hanau,  was  a  close  second,  having  been 
the  father  of  seventy-four  children.     One  of  the  latter's  bastards 


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was  the  "Austrian  butcher,"  Von  Haynau,  of  infamous  memory — 
fit  descendant  of  such  depraved  and  execrable  ancestry. 

Several  other  German  rulers  hired  out  their  subjects  as 
soldiers  for  other  powers,  though  Frederick  seems  to  have  done 
most  in  this  line.  Between  1776  and  1784,  he  received  of  the 
British  government  more  than  ;^3,ooo,ooo  .sterling  for  the  hire 
of  his  soldiers  (some  22,000  of  them)  to  aid  in  crushing  out  the 
liberties  of  America.  Mr.  E.  J.  Lowell,  in  his  "The  Hessians 
in  the  Revolution,"  states  that  these  German  mercenaries 
served  for  seven  years  against  us ;  and  that  more  than  12,000 
of  therii  never  returned  to  their  native  land.  Some  Hessian 
women  came  with  the  troops.  One  division  was  accompanied 
by  TJ  soldiers'  wives.     (Lowell's  "The  Hessians,"  &c.,  p.  119.) 

Many  of  the  Hessians,  captured  from  time  to  time,  remained 
and  settled  in  this  countr)'. 

On  Dec.  20,  1776,  Gen.  Washington  crossed  the  Delaware, 
surprised  the  Hessian  encampment,  and  captured  about  1000 
prisoners.  August  16,  1777,  Gen.  Stark  defeated  a  part  of 
Burgoyne's  army,  at  Bennington,  Vt.,  and  took  nearly  700  pris- 
oners, of  whom  about  400  were  Hessians.  On  Oct.  17th  of  the 
same  year.  Gen.  ISurgoyne  surrendered  at  Saratoga  his  entire 
army  of  5791  men,  2431  of  whom  were  Hessians.  Gen.  Whipple 
was  appointed  to  conduct  the  captive  troops  to  the  above-named 
place  of  detention  near  Boston.  Here  they  remained  till  Nov., 
1778,  when  they  were  sent  to  Virginia.  As  late  as  ^L'ly,  1780, 
some  1500  of  them  were  still  remaining  in  various  jiortions  of 
that  State. 

On  the  whole,  it  seems  probable  that  the  Hessian  mercena- 
ries captured  at  Bennington,  as  above,  were  those  whom  Grand- 
mother saw  as  aforestated.  She  being  at  that  time  a  girl  some 
seven  years  of  age,  the  scene  was  indelibly  impressed  upon  her 
memory.] 

Another  incident  which  she  used  to  relate  deeply  thrilled  the 
souls  of  her  young  auditors.  It  pertained  to  her  almost  miracu- 
lous escape  from  being  eaten  alive  by  wild  beasts.  When  a 
young  girl,  Lois,  being  the  eldest  of  the  children,  was  sent,  with 
her  ne.Kt  younger  brother,  Solomon,  upon  an  errand  to  a  neigh- 


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bor's.  Their  path  lay  in  part  through  a  forest.  For  some  reason 
they  were  detained,  and  when  they  set  out  to  return,  the  shades 
of  evening  were  fast  approaching.  Fortunately  they  were 
accompanied  by  their  father's  dog,  a  very  large  and  fierce  animal 
appropriately  named  "  Lion."  When  they  reached  the  middle 
of  the  wood,  their  ears  were  suddenly  saluted  with  that  dread, 
blood-curdling  sound, ///^ //^ze'//;/^  <7/"//«;/!^;;7  tvolves.  Soon  the 
fierce  brutes  drew  near,  and  began  to  circle  about  the  children, 
and  close  in  upon  them,  while  their  fiiery  eyes  and  gleaming  teeth 
were  plainly  visible  in  the  dusky  gloom.  At  this  critical  moment, 
the  frightened  girl  said  to  the  dog:  "Speak  to  'em.  Lion!" 
Whereupon  the  noble  animal,  raising  his  head,  opened  his  massive 
jaws  and  uttered  a  succession  of  growls  which  would  have  done 
credit  to  a  Numidian  lion.  The  cowardly  brutes  shrunk  back  in 
terror,  but  soon  gathered  courage,  and  drew  near  once  more. 
Again  the  thunderous  growls  of  the  dog  deterred  them  from  the 
attack,  and  caused  them  to  slink  away.  The  process  was  several 
times  repeated,  until  finally  the  trembling  children  emerged  from 
the  wood,  and  were  restored  to  their  overjoyed  parents. 

It  would  not  be  possible  to  meet  with  a  similar  experience  in 
the  town  of  Wells  to-day.      But  that  was  near  a  century  and  a 
quarter  ago. 
^  I    think    I    shall   be   pardoned   for   introducing  another  of 

grandmother's  stories  which  —  pertaining  to  her  grandfather's 
time,  —  after  the  lapse  of  fifty  years,  comes  vividly  to  my  mind. 
It  relates  to  the  days  of  Indian  atrocities,  and  the  scene  was  laid, 
I  think,  somewhere  on  the  coast  of  Yerrkr-©*^  Wells,  Me.  At  a 
certain  point,  a  deep  and  narrow  ravine  runs  up  from  the  marsh, 
some  way  into  the  high  land.  At  the  head  of  this  ravine,  stood, 
'^' ^''J;^^  in  t^e  olden  time,  a  garrison-house,  with  a  thatched  roof.  Into 
'    ,  this  stronghold,  the  settlers  —  men,  women,  and  children — were 

wont  to  gather  in  time  of  apprehended  danger  from  the  skulk- 
ing, bloodthirsty  foe. 

On  a  certain  day  the  alarm  went  round,  "The  Indians  are 
coming,  and  will  doubtless  attack  the  settlement  to-night." 
Words  can  but  poorly  depict  the  anxiety  and  terror  caused  by 
this  warning.  All  the  settlers,  old  and  young,  made  their  way 
to  the  block-house  for  safety.      There  they  waited  and  watched 


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as  the  hours  glided  by,  and  the  darkness  drew  on  apace.  Just 
in  the  gray  gloaming,  dusky  forms  were  seen  creeping  along  the 
marsh,  and  gathering  in  the  ravine.  Soon  the  latter  swarmed 
with  fierce  savages,  who,  with  dreadful  yells  and  whoops,  jiro- 
claimed  their  deadly  purpose.  They  were,  however,  too  crafty 
and  cowardly  to  attempt  to  carry  the  fort  by  storm,  and  so 
expose  themselves  to  the  well-aimed  guns  of  the  settlers  ;  they 
knew  a  trick  worth  two  of  that.  They  sought  to  set  the  fort  on 
fire,  and  so  either  roast  its  inmates  alive,  or  compel  them  to  leave 
their  shelter,  when  they  could  be  caught  and  tomahawked,  or  else 
put  to  death  with  the  most  agonizing  tortures.  The  wily  savages 
would  pop  up  from  the  ravine,  let  fly  their  fiery  mi.ssiles,  and 
dodge  back  again  so  quickly,  that  in  the  darkness  it  was  difficult 
for  the  settlers  to  shoot  them.  [Mather,  in  his  "  Magnalia,"' 
Book  VI I.,  Article  XVI.,  alludes  to  the  use  of  these  weapons  by 
the  Indians  in  the  "long  war,"  1688-98.  Some  small  vessels 
were  lying  in  the  then  deep  and  narrow  harbor  of  Wells,  Me, 
Sheltered  by  a  kind  of  rude  breastwork  composed  of  planks, 
rails,  and  a  stack  of  hay,  the  .savages  sought  to  set  the  vessels  on 
fire.  "Lying  thus  within  a  dozen  yards  of  the  sloops,"  says  the 
historian,  "  they  did  with  their  fire  arrows  divers  times  desper- 
ately set  the  sloops  on  fire,  but  the  brave  defendants,  with  a 
swab  at  the  end  of  a  rope  tied  unto  a  pole,  and  so  dipt  inti)  the 
water,  happily  put  the  fire  out."  ] 

So  in  the  present  case  these  fiends  shot  flaming  arrows  in 
great  numbers,  which,  sticking  in  the  dry  thatch  of  the  roof  of  the 
garrison,  kindled  frequent  fires  only  to  be  extinguished  with 
great  difficulty  and  danger.  Soon  the  supply  of  water  grew 
scant,  and  the  inmates  of  the  garrison  faced  the  dread  alternative 
of  being  roa.sted  alive,  or  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  those 
whose  "tender  mercies  were  cruelty."  Their  peril  was  imminent 
and  dire. 

Suddenly  a  bright  thought  came,  like  a  flash  of  inspiration, 
to  one  of  the  men  in  the  garrison. 

There  happened  to  be  in  the  block-house  an  old  "mortar" 
which  had  been  unused  for  a  long  time.  [Doubtless  the  reader  is 
aware  that  a  "mortar,"  in  military  parlance,  is  a  .short  cannon 
intended  for  throwing  bombs,  shells,  and   the  like.      A  modern 


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Coehorn  mortar  weighs  about  170  pounds,  and  throws  24- 
pound  shells.  It  is  to  be  noted  here  that,  in  the  ni^ny  colonial 
wars,  the  Indians  made  attacks,  not  only  by  land,  but  also  by  sea, 
upon  our  coast  towns.  They  came  in  canoes,  or  in  vessels  with 
their  French  allies.  These  attacks  were  greatly  dreaded  by  the 
colonists.  In  July,  1677,  as  Belknap  states,  the  savages  actually 
captured  some  twenty  fishing  vessels  which  had  put  into  various 
harbors  for  the  night,  and  had  neglected  to  guard  against  sur- 
prise. And  he  adds  that  in  1705  the  coast  was  "infested  by  the 
enemy's  privateers."  As  a  precautionary  measure,  we  are  told 
that,  in  cases  of  alarm,  the  colonists  caused  "  spy-boats "  to 
patrol  part  of  the  coast  of  N.  H.  and  Me.;  and  a  "  nightly  patrole  " 
was  maintained  along  the  shore  in  the  vicinity  of  Portsmouth,  to 
prevent  any  surprise  by  sea.  Despite  this  vigilance,  however, 
as  Belknap  tells  us,  on  Sept.  29,  i69i,a  party  of  Indians  "came 
from  the  eastward  in  canoes  to  Sandy  Beach  (Rye),  where  they 
killed  and  captivated  21  persons." 

The  "mortar"  above  referred  to,  may  have  been  placed  in 
the  block-house  as  an  aid  in  repelling  these  anticipated  attacks 
from  the  sea.  Belknap  afifirms  that  in  the  expedition  against 
Port  Royal  (now  Annapolis),  Nova  Scotia,  in  17 10,  the  leader  of 
the  expedition,  Francis  Nicholson,  had  five  frigates  and  a  "bomb- 
ketch  "  under  his  command.  This  circumstance,  with  others 
which  might  be  adduced,  shows  that  bombs  and  mortars  were 
familiar  implements  of  warfare  in  those  early  times.] 

As  we  have  said  above,  it  occurred  to  one  of  the  inmates  of 
the  endangered  garrison,  to  make  instant  use  of  the  old  "mortar" 
as  a  weapon  of  defence.  Accordingly  he  and  his  companions 
took  the  old  cannon,  put  in  a  heavy  charge  of  powder,  then  filled 
the  piece  to  the  muzzle  with  spikes,  bullets,  slugs,  chunks  of 
iron,  and  broken  links  of  chains,  and  similar  effective  missiles, 
and  rammed  the  whole  well  home.  Then  some  half-dozen  men 
took  the  mortar,  and,  passing  out  of  the  back  door  of  the  fort 
unperceived  by  the  savages,  made  a  wide  and  swift  detour  along 
the  marsh,  and  came  to  the  foot  of  the  ravine.  They  carefully 
aimed  the  cannon  up  the  gorge  which  was  filled  with  savages 
swarming — grandmother  would  say — "as  thickly  as  your  fingers." 
Then  the   mortar  uttered  its   mighty  voice,    and   instantly  the 


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midnight  air  was  rent  with  such  yells,  shrieks,  and  f^roans  as 
earth  has  seldom  heard.  The  men  who  brought  the  mortar, 
easily  slipped  away  in  the  darkness,  and  escaped  unscathed. 

It  took  the  Indians  until  daylight,  as  grandmother  used  to 
tell  us,  to  carry  off  their  dead  and  wounded. 

Thenceforth  the  savage  foe  gave  that  garrison  a  wide  berth. 

I  cannot  describe  the  animation  with  which  the  venerable  old 
lady  used  to  recount  these  tales  of  colonial  and  Indian  warfare. 
As  her  grandfather  and  his  family  had  fled  for  their  lives  before 
the  savage  foe,  she  might  be  excused  for  feeling  a  rather  strong 
antipathy  to  the  "  noble  red  man."  She  had  evidently  come  to 
feel  that  "there  is  no  good  Indian  but  a  dead  Indian.''  And  I 
cannot  wonder  at  this  feeling  on  her  part.  But  I  must  return 
from  a  rather  long  digression,  and  resume  the  thread  of  the 
genealogy. 

Stephen,  brother  of  Solomon,  senior,  and  great-grandson  of 
George,  the  emigrant,  became,  at  i8  years  of  age,  a  soldier 
in  the  army  of  the  Revolution.  He  served  two  years,  and  then, 
being  on  the  sick  list,  was  discharged.  He  was  in  the  battles  of 
Princeton  and  Trenton,  and  suffered  severely  at  Valley^  Forge 
with  his  fellow-patriots.  His  tale  is  most  pathetic.  He  says  :  — 
"  I  stood  guard  many  a  stormy  night,  with  no  other  clothing 
than  a  jacket  and  a  pair  of  sheep-skin  breeches,  without  shoes 
or  stockings.  I  was  three  days  crossing  the  lake  before  the 
enemy,  with  only  one-half  pint  of  rice  boiled  in  the  filthy  lake 
water;  and  I  was  four  days  on  fatigue  [duty],  building  forts, 
without  any  provision  save  a  piece  of  dead  horse  and  one  small 
loaf  of  bread.  I  was  sick  eleven  days  without  medical  assistance, 
with  an  abscess  on  my  side.  Eight  of  those  days  were  stormy, 
and  I  lay  on  my  back  with  nothing  under  me  save  a  few  strips  of 
birch  bark,  and  nothing  over  me  but  the  canopy  of  heaven,  and 
an  old  blanket  full  of  vermin.  I  travelled  from  Penn.sylvania  to 
Wells,  in  the  dead  of  winter,  sick  with  a  disease  contracted  by 
lying  on  the  ground." 

So  costly,  in  the  sufferings  of  brave  and  patriotic  men.  were 
the  liberties  of  America. 

Stephen  Ricker  married  (i)  Sarah  Storcr  (pub.  Dec.   25, 
1779);  (2)  Alice  Goodwin  (Wells  records  call  her  "  p:ilis  Good- 


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win");  jnib.  Nov.  12,  1791.  Of  these  marriages  were  born  six 
children  —  George,  "William,  Sarah,  John,  Lois,  and  Samuel  fborn 
Jan.,  1796,  died  Sept.,  1866). 

Samuel  married  Susan  Storer,  and  they  had  five  children  — 
Sarah,  Alice  Elizabeth,  John,  George,  and  Charles  F,  To  the  latter 
the  writer  is  much  indebted  for  valuable  facts  and  reminiscences. 
Alice  E.  married  a  Davis,  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  resident 
of  Jerusalem,  Palestine,  engaged  in  educational  work  there. 

It  may  be  added  that  Stephen  and  his  wife  removed  later  to 
Parsonsfield,  Me.,  where  both  died  and  were  buried. 

Maturin  and  his  wife,  parents  of  Solomon  and  Stephen, 
spent  their  latter  years  in  Wells,  where  both  died  between  1788 
and  1792. 

It  may  be  said  here  that  Mr.  Savage,  in  his  "  Genealogical 
Dictionary,"  mentions  several  individuals  and  families  by  the 
name  of  "  Rickard,"  "  Ricker,"  or  "Ricket" — which  names  he 
considers  mere  variants, — as  follows  :  Giles,  of  Plymouth,  Mass. ; 

freeman,  1637.     Married  (i)  Judith ;  (2)  Joan  Tilson  ;  ( 3  ) 

Mrs.  Hannah  Churchill.  Children  —  Giles,  Jr„  John,  and  ( per- 
haps )  dau.  Sarah,  all  by  first  wife. 

Giles,  Jr.,  m.  Oct.  31,  165 1,  Hannah  Dunham.  Two  sons, 
John  and  Samuel, 

John,  m.  Esther  Barnes,  on  same  day  with  the  marriage  of 
his  brother,  Giles,  Jr.  Children — John,  Mary,  Lydia,  John  2d, 
and  Mercy. 

Thomas,  of  Scituate ;  will  of  Nov.  14,  1648,  names  neither 
wife  nor  child. 

Thomas,  Salem,  1670,  had  wife  Sarah,  and  daughter  of  same 
name. 

However,  I  confess  to  some  doubt  as  to  whether  the  above 
should  really  be  reckoned  with  the  Ricker  family. 

The  early  records  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  mention  some  50  or  more 
persons  bearing  the  name  of  Ricker.  In  Somersworth,  N.  H., 
Berwick,  Poland,  and  Parsonsfield,  Me.,  the  family  has  been  an 
influential  one.  Prominent  among  the  Parsonsfield  Rickers  may 
be  mentioned  Deacon  Dominicus  Ricker,  and  his  sons,  Domini- 
cus,  Esq.,  and  Rev.  Joseph  Ricker,  D.  D.,  of  Augusta,  who  died 
in    Sept.,   1897.      By   legislative    enactment  "Ricker   Classical 


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Institute,"  at  Houlton,  Me.,  bears  Dr.  Ricker's  name,  he  having 
been  instrumental  in  securing  the  endowment  of  the  school. 

As  illustrating  the  intermarriage  of  families,  it  may  be  added 
that  Dr.  Kicker's  first  wife  was  Anna  Judson  Clarke,  whose 
grandmother,  Sukey  Piper,  was  of  the  5th  generation  in  descent 
from  NATHANIl'^L  PIPER,  the  venerable  Ipswich  immigrant, 
of  whom  we  have  spoken  earlier. 

Those  enterprising  gentlemen,  Messrs.  Hiram  Ricker  and 
Sons,  proprietors  of  the  famous  medicinal  springs  and  the  mag- 
nificent hotel  at  South  Poland,  Me.,  do  honor  to  the  family  name". 
They  are  descended  from  the  first  Maturin. 

Mr.  1{.  H.  Ricker  of  IClgin,  111.,  historian  and  genealogist  of 
the  family,  is  of  the  same  worthy  lineage. 

And  Rev.  E.  W.  Ricker,  of  Lewiston,  Me.,  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War,  with  Rev.  G.  S.  Ricker,  Faribault,  Minn.,  and  Rev. 
A.  E.  Ricker,  of  Chadron,  Neb.,  proves  that  the  family  has  not 
neglected  divinity.  Nor  is  the  "healing  art"  without  its  devo- 
tees among  the  Rickers  of  our  country.  More  than  one  Dr. 
Ricker  has  done  honor  to  the  family  name. 

The  late  Hon.  John  P.  Hale,  the  famous  old-time  anti-slavery 
leader,  and  member  of  Congress  from  N.  H.,  married  a  lady  of 
Ricker  ancestry,  and  the  mother  of  the  late  Chief  Justjce  Doe, 
of  N.  H.,  was  of  the  same  honored  lineage. 

Whether  Richard  Riker,  Recorder  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  in  the  year  181 5,  was  a  descendant  or  relative  of  the  two 
immigrants  j^reviously  mentioned,  we  are  not  able  to  say. 

The  Parsonsfield  family  seem  to  have  been,  for  the  most 
part,  descendants  of  Maturin,  the  emigrant,  younger  brother  of 
Gkorce.  At  this  point,  we  may  note  a  branch  of  the  family 
which  once  flourished  in  Wolfeboro'  and  Tuftonboro'. 

At  an  "early  date,  Joseph  II.  Ricker,  b.  1762,  d.  1838,  went 
from  Parsonsfield,  via  Newfield  and  Brookficld,  to  Wolfeboro'. 
He  married  Sarah  Trickey,  b.  1764,  d.  1841.  Their  children 
were — Abigail  H.,  William,  Sarah,  Rebecca  L.,  Phebe  C.  (married 
a  Cram),  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Adelphia,  eight  in  all. 

Of  these,  William  settled  in  Tuftonboro',  about  the  year 
1840.  He  married  (i)  Sarah  Keniston,  (2)  Lucy  Whitten. 
Children,  by  first  marriage  William,  Joseph,    Dorothy,    Xancy, 


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Lucretia,  Joanna,  and  Wentworth.  By  second  marriage— Alonzo, 
David,  James,  Monroe,  Abbie,  Cynthia,  Ephraim  W.  (Rev., 
above  mentioned),  and  Reuben — fifteen  in  all. 

The  venerable  Reuel  Ricker,  Waterboro',  Me.,  at  an 
advanced  age  in  1899,  is  great-great-grandson  to  Gkorge  the  immi- 
grant. And  the  late  Ebenezer  Ricker,  of  Lyman  (once  "Cox- 
hall"),  Me.,  was,  I  think,  the  great-great-great-grandson  of  the 
emigrant  Maturin. 

Mr.  Henry  Stoddard  Ruggles,  of  Wakefield,  M^ss.,  claims 
descent  from  the  same  younger  emigrant.  His  genealogy  is 
given  as  follows: — (i)  Maturin  Ricker,  killed  by  Indians 
June  4,  1706;  (2)  Joseph,  m.  Elizabeth  Garland;  (3)  Noah,  of 
Berwick,  Me.,  m.  Margaret  Eniery;  (4)  Joanna,  m.  Jonathan 
Ross,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  ;  (s)  Jonathan  Ross,  Jr.,  m.  Mary 
Goodwin  ;  (6)  Mary  Goodwin  Ross,  b.  June  13,  1812,  d.  Oct.  11, 
1894;  m.  Henry  Bond  Ruggles,  son  of  Major  John  Ruggles,  of 
Rutland,  Vt.;  (7)  Henry  Stoddard  Ruggles,  b.  Oct.  31,  1846,  m. 
Mary  Elizabeth  Ryan,  of  Boston.     Children  as  follows: — 

Henry,  b.  Feb.  20,  1879;  d.  Jan.  24,  1881. 

Francis  Dunbar,  b.  Aug.  9,  1883. 

Horace  Cheney,  b.  June  18,  1887  ;  d.  Feb.  9,  1888. 

Emmeline. 

Mary  Rosamond. 

Marguerite. 

Mabel  Lyman. 

Louisa  Kingsley. 

Alicia. 

Lucia  Dalton. 
•  Julia  Parker. 

The  late  John  Ricker,  Esq.,  husband  of  Mrs.  Marilla  M. 
Ricker,  of  Dover,  and  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Ham)  Ricker, 
of  Madbury,  N.  H.,  was  born  in  1807.  He  is  thought  to  have 
been  of  the  line  of  Maturin,  the  first. 

Mrs.  Maria  V.  (Ricker)  Millard,  of  Needham,  Mass.,  with 
her  sister,  the  late  Miss  L.  Ricker,  is  in  the  line  of  the  first 
George,  and  in  the  seventh  generation. 

Many  other  facts  of  interest  might  be  given  concerning  the 
Ricker  family,  ancient  and  honorable  as  it  is,  but  our  limits  will 


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not  permit.  And  many  facts  and  incidents  which  have  been 
merely  adverted  to,  in  our  necessarily  brief  sketch,  will,  we 
doubt  not,  be  far  more  fully  and  worthily  treated  in  the  forth- 
coming history  and  genealogy  of  the  family,  by  Mr.  K.  II.  Kicker, 
above  mentioned.     We  trust  that  itmay  soon  appear. 

Those  who  are  interested  in  armorial  bearings  and  related 
subjects  may  be  pleased  to  see  the  following  description  of  the 
Riccar  coat  of  arms  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Poland  Spring 
branch  of  the  family.  The  description  is  copied  verbatim  from 
the  elegant  little  brochure  issued  by  Messrs.  Iliram  Kicker  and 
Sons,  and  entitled  "  Poland  Spring  Centennial — A  Souvenir." 
The  motto  is,  Sapicntia  Douum  Dei — "Wisdom,  the  Gift  of 
God."  "The  family  escutcheon  is  officially  described  as 
'Arms  azure,  a  naturel  rose  argent,  accompanied  by  three  .stars, 
or.  Crest  :  the  rose  between  two  horns,  coup,  alternate  azure  and 
argent  ; '  the  beautiful  .symbolism  suggesting,  in  the  golden  stars 
set  in  the  azure  of  the  sky,  lofty  aspirations  as  well  as  the 
Trinity,  and,  in  the  rose,  beauty  and  grace.  The  horns  are  proof 
of  knighthood,  since  the  knights  alone  wore  them  afield  to  sus- 
tain the  chief  tinctures  of  the  arms  ;  and  the  rose  naturel  indi- 
cates, according  to  Burke's  'Armory,'  'a  period  when  arms  were 
not  subject  to  rigid  and  conventional  rules,  and  it  dates,  in  all 
instances,  prior  to  the  sixteenth  century' — that  is,  prior  to  1501, 
with  which  year'the  si.xteenth  century,  of  course,  began. 

The  Scotch  families  bearing  the  names  of  Kickard  and 
Kickards  have  coats  of  arms  which  are  described  in  Fairbairn  on 
"  Crests,"  new  edition,  p.  37<S. 

Thus  we  close  our  brief  sketch  of  a  numerous,  an  honored, 
and  influential  family. 

ADDKXDA. 

So  far  as  I  am  aware,  no  elaborate  and  extended  genealogy 
of  the  Halev  family  has  been  published  up  to  the  present  time. 
I  am,  indeed,  informed  that  the"Yarmouth  (Nova  Scotia)  Herald" 

of ,  1896,    contained  a  quite    voluminous   account    of    the 

Haleys  of  that  vicinity,  tracing  their  origin  back  to  Kittery,  Me., 
and  Portsmouth,  N.  II.  This  I  have  not  seen  as  yet.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  want  above  intimated  may  soon  be  su|)pliftl  bv  the 


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publication  of  Mrs.  Tooker's  book,  to  which  -already  we  have 
several  times  alliided. 

Relative  to  the  Pipers,  two  works  of  not  very  large  size 
have  appeared,  which  sketch  different  branches  of  the  family. 
The  first  of  these,  "Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  Solomon  Piper, 
of  Dublin,  N.  H.,"  by  Solomon  Piper,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  pub- 
lished some  20  or  25  years  ago,  was  of  value  so  far  as  it  extended. 
The  second  work,  "  Genealogy  of  Elisha  Piper,  of  Parsonsfield, 
Me.,"  with  an  appendix  containing  genealogies  of  Asa  Piper,  of 
Wakefield,  N.  H.,  Solomon  Piper,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  Stephen 
Piper,  of  Newfield,  Me.,  by  Horace  Piper,  A.  M.,  is  much  more 
comprehensive,  and  is  worthy  of  high  commendation.  It  was 
published  some  ten  years  ago,  and  may,  perhaps,  still  be  had  of 
Major  Horace  L.  Piper,  15015  L  Street,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Price,  $1.2^.  The  smaller  book  is,  I  think,  long  since  out  of 
print. 

Since  the  foregoing  was  in  type,  I  have  received  from  a 
grand-daughter  of  his  a  few  further  particulars  respecting  the 
posterity  of  Adjutant  John  Piper.  His  daughter,  Lucinda  C' 
had  by  first  husband    two    children — Phebe  A.  and  John  Albert. 

Susan  W,  had  Phebe  R.,  John  P.,  and  Samuel  T. 

Vienna  E.  had  John  A.,  Mary  E.  (died  in  infancy),  Mary  E. 
2d,  Joseph  N.,  Samuel  L.,  Sarah  E.,  Charles  H.,  and  Annie  V. 
(See  pp.  38-41,  preceding.) 

As  to  the  Neal  family, — a  "chart"  of  the  family  was 
advertised  some  time  ago  by  Joel  Munsell's  Sons,  Albany,  N.  Y.  I 
deem  it  of  no  special  value.  Two  pamphlets  have  also  been  pub- 
lished— one,  "  The  Neal  Record,  being  a  List  of  the  Descend- 
ants of  John  Neale,  one  of  the  Early  Settlers  of  Salem,  Mass.'' 
Compiled  by  Theodore  Augustus  Neal,  Boston  ;  H.  W.  Dutton 
&  Son,  Printers,  1856. 

The  other  is  entitled,  "Historical  Notes  of  the  Ancestry 
and  Descendants  of  Henry  Neill,  M.  D.'' 

Privately  Printed.     1886.     Anonymous. 

I  have  never  seen  a  copy  of  either  pamphlet  offered  for  sale. 
Doubtless  both  are  out  of  print. 

The  need  of  a  thorough  and  comprehensive  history  of  the 
Neal   family   is    sufficiently  obvious.     But  its  preparation  would 


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be  a  task    iinolxing   an    a])i)alling   amount    of    laljor   and  very 
heavy  expense. 

With  reference  to  the  jiossibly  earliest  Walter  \eal  men- 
tioned on  page  51,  since  writing  that  paragraph  I  have  gathered, 
from  the  records  of  Visitation  cited  on  that  page,  some  further 
items  of  interest  concerning  his  family  and  near  relatives.  Thus 
I  find  that  his  father's  name  is  gixen  as  being  "  Henery  Neal  " 
(so  in  record)  "of  Hanging  Houghton  in  com.  North'ton,  1618." 
We  take  it  that  the  latter  expression  is  equivalent  to,  "  in  the 
county  of  Northampton.'' 

It  appears,  moreover,  that  the  wife's    name  is  mentioned  as 

"  IClizabeth  Lacon  "  of  .     The  children  of  "  Henery"  and 

Elizabeth  are  named — Lacon,  Walter  and  Frances  (twins,  appar- 
ently), Lancelot,  Lancelot,  Grace.  Lacon's  age  is  given  as  bemg 
8.  in  i6i8  ;  hence  he  was  born  in  1610.  Whether  he  was  the 
oldest  of  the  children  does  not  appear.  If  so.  and  if  the  names 
are  arranged  in  theorder  of  births,  W^alter  was  probably  born  about 
161 2  or  16 1 3.  At  all  events,  this  man  could  not  have  been  the 
same  with  Walter,  the  son  of  William,  who  died  about  1612. 
Nor,  on  the  above  hypothesis,  could  he  have  been  the  same  with 
Capt.  Walter  Neale  ist,  who  entered  the  English  army  about 
161 5.  Hut  it  may  be  that  Walter,  the  son  of  "Henery,"'  was 
identical  with  Capt.  Walter  Neale  2d,  who  settled  in  Greenland*/ 
N.  H.,  about  1653,  or  perhaps  somewhat  earlier. 

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  /^ossib/c  that  "Henery's  "  children 
are  not  named  in  the  order  of  their  births;  hence,  Lacon,  instead 
of  being  the  oldest,  may  have  been  the  youngest  of  the  family. 
On  this  hypothesis,  Walter  may  have  been  born  as  far  back  as 
1 590  or  1595;  and  might,  in  that  case,  turn  out  to  be  Capt. 
Walter,  the  soldier  and  explorer.  1  lowever,  so  far  as  we  can  see, 
the  matter  is  likely  to  remain  an  "open  question." 

The  reader  will  notice  that  later  advices  have  enablctl  me 
to  correct,  on  page  66,  a  statement  made  elsewhere  (p.  64)  relative 
to  date  of  decease  of  Joseph  and  Polly  (Neal)  Kent.  I  was  mis- 
led by  information  then  deemetl  authentic. 

With  regard  to  the  Ricki-.k  family,  this  is  to  be  said.  Some 
twenty  years  since,  a  pamphlet  appeaitid  bearing  the  following 
title,--  "  Records    of  .Some   of  the    Descendants    of  George  and 


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Maturin  Rickcr,'"  &c.,  &c.  Comi)ilccl  by  VVm.  B.  I.apham,  M.  D. 
Augusta,  Me.     Sprague,  Owen  &  Nash,  Printers,  1877. 

We  understand  that  Dr.  Laphatn  was  greatly  aided  in  his 
researches  by  the  late  Rev.  Joseph  Ricker,  D.  D.,  of  Augusta. 
It  is  apparently  imj^racticable  to  obtain  a  copy  of  this  admirable 
little  pamplilet,  except  perliaps  a  type-written  copy. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  repeat  that  our  friend,  Mr.  M  H.  Ricker, 
of  Klgin,  111.,  is  preparing  a  history  of  the  Ricker  family,  which 
will  no  doubt  be  worthy  of  its  subject. 

The  reader  may  recall  that,  on  page  34,  allusion  was  made  to 
the  responsibility  of  the  French  Canadian  Jesuits  for  the 
unspeakable  atrocities  perpetrated  upon  the  poor  settlers  in  the 
\'arious  towns  of  New   England. 

After  a  careful  examination  of  authorities,  and  taking  into 
account  the  near  six  hundred  scalps  found  in  the  \illage  of  St. 
P^rancis,  in  Oct.,  1759  (see  on  page  34),  I  estimate  that,  in  the 
various  wars  between  the  colonists  and  the  Indians,  during  a 
period  of  about  150  years,  beginning  with  the  Pequod  war  of 
1637,  ^^^11  "igl^  ^■''-'^  thonsaud  oi  the  colonists  of  New  England 
and  northern  New  York  were  slaughtered—  often  put  to  death 
with  the  most  protracted  and  excruciating  tortures — while  a  very 
large  number,  perhaps  nearly  as  many  more,  were  taken  captive 
by  the  savage  foe.  And  the  responsibility' for  this  butchery  and 
suffering  lay  mainly  at  the  door  of  the  French  ecclesiastics  of 
Canada. 

This,  we  think,  is  established  beyond  any  reasonable  doubt 
by  the  statements  of  French  Canadian  annalists,  Charle\"oix  and 
others  ;  by  letters  and  documents  intercepted  or  caj^tured  from 
time  to  time  ;  by  the  testimony  of  prisoners  on  their  return  home; 
and  by  the  admissions  of  the  Indians  themseh'es,  in  times  of 
truce  or  peace.  Charlevoix,  just  mentioned,  a  French  Jesuit  mis- 
sionary and  historian,  lived  in  Canada  for  a  term  of  years,  and  in 
1744  published  his  History  of  "  New  France "  (Canada  and 
Louisiana).  In  that  work,  he  often  gloats  over  the  miseries  of 
the  New  England  settlers  ;  and  expatiates  with  evident  pleasure 
upon  the  injuries  and  losses  of  life  and  propert)'  inflicted  upon 
them  by  the  savages. 


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A<:jain  and  a^aiii,  the  Indian.s  would  come  witli  a  flag  of 
truce,  and  enter  into  the  most  solemn  treaties  with  the  settlers  ; 
yet  within  a  short  time  they  would  begin  pillaging  and  murdering 
mew.  The  secret  of  this  treachery  was  that  they  had  been 
taught  !)}■  their  spiritual  guides  that  an  oath  or  promise  made  to 
"heretics'"  is  of  little  or  no  binding  force.  As  Helknap  says, 
they  soon  "  learned  to  call  the  iMiglish  'heretics,'  and  that  tn 
extirpate  them  as  such  was  meritorious  in  the  sight  of  Heaven. 
When  their  minds  were  filled  with  religious  frenzy,  they  became 
moi-e  bitter  and  implacable  enemies  than  before  ;  and  finding  the 
sale  of  scaljis  and  ])risoners  turn  to  good  account  in  Canada,  they 
had  still  farther  incitement  to  continue  their  dejiredations  and 
prosecute  their  vengeance." 

The  historian  adds:  "The  l^'rench  missionaries  had  been  for 
some  years  very  assiduous  in  propagating  their  tenets  among 
them,  one  of  which  w\is  that  to  'break  faith  with  heretics  is  no 
->iii.    '      (  h'armer's  lielknap,  jjp.  130,  137. j 

Of  course,  thus  stimulated  by  fanatical,  sectarian  hate,  antl 
b}'  the  promise  and  prospect  of  large  bounties  for  scnl/^s  and  foi- 
fdf'dvi-s,  the  savages  persisted  in  theii"  murderous  assaults  upon 
the  New  Mngland  settlers. 

A  historical  incident  casts  a  peculiar  light  upon  the  char- 
acter of  these  sanguinary  disciples  of  the  Jesuit  fathers.  W'e 
need  not  rehearse  in  detail  the  familiar  story  of  the  caj)turc  and 
sufferings  of  Mrs.  Hannah  Dustan,  of  1  laxerhill,  Mass.  Suffice 
it  to  say  that,  on  March  15,  1697,  the  saxages  made  a  descent 
upon  that  town,  murdered  or  captured  about  40  persons,  and 
burned  some  half-dozen  houses.  Mrs.  Dustan  was  ill  in  bcil.with 
an  infant  about  a  week  old.  The  savages  forced  her  from  her 
bed,  weak  aiul  ill  as  she  was,  and  started,  with  her  and  the  other 
captives,  on  the  long  and  wearisome  tramp  toward  Canada.  A 
little  way  out,  they  dashed  out  the  brains  of  the  infant  against  a 
tree,  and,  soon  after,  sunk  their  hatchets  into  the  heads  ot  others 
of  the  feebler  captives,  leaving  the  bodies  on  the  ground  to  be 
devoured  by  the  wild  beasts.  And  yet— as  Mrs.  Dustan  and  otiier 
captives  affirmed- -these  bloody  wretches,  with  the  scalps  of 
innocent  women  and  children  dangling  from  their  belts,  showed 
themsel\-es  the  "devout"  disciples  of  the    b'rench    ecclesiastics. 


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Indeed,  so  "  pious  "  and  "  religious "  were  they,  that,  in  the 
words  of  the  old  historian,  "  in  obedience  to  the  instructions 
which  the  French  have  given  them,"  they  would  scrupulously 
recite  their  prayers  three  times  a  day, — morning,  noon  and  night. 
And  so  thoroughly  had  they  been  indoctrinated  by  their  spiritual 
guides  that,  with  a  fine  touch  of  Popish  intolerance,  they  were 
unwilling  that  the  poor  captive  women  should  hold  their  devo- 
tions in  l^Inglish,  by  themselves.  This  shows  how  fully  imbued 
with  the  superstitions  and  intolerance  of  their  spiritual  guides 
these  savage  "converts  "  had  become.  (See  "  Magnalia,"  Book 
VII.,  Article  XXV.)  Kt^n 

In  Jan.,  1690,  M.  de  Den^oi^ville,  Go\-crn()r  of  Canada, 
wrote  thus  :  "  The  good  understanding  I  have  maintained  with 
these  Indians  through  the  care  of  the  Jesuits,  especially  the  two 
fathers  Bigot,  brothers,  contributed  to  the  success  of  all  their 
attacks  this  summer  upon  the  English." 

(See  X.  Y.  Col.  Doc,  ix.  440  ;  cited  in  Quint's  Pike's  Jour., 
p.  12,  note.) 

This  unwitting  admission  discloses  the  ghastly  and  infamous 
secret,  and  fixes  the  responsibility  beyond  question. 

As  to  those  merciless,  fanatical  zealots  who  thus  hounded  on 
the  savages  in  their  bloody  onslaughts  upon  Christian  people,  they 
will  remain  forever  pilloried  in  history,  as  countenancing  the 
butchery  of  helpless  and  unoffending  women  and  children, — as 
the  instigators  and  abettors  of  wide-spread  rapine  and  carnage 
in  the  most  cruel  and  revolting  forms. 

[Those  who  wish  to  see  further  details  resi)ecting  the  bar- 
barities perpetrated  under  such  auspices  by  the  savages,  may 
consult  Bouton's  Hist,  of  Concord,  X.  H.,  p.  203  ;  Farmer's  Bel- 
knap, pp.  68,  127  (account  of  Major  Waldron's  tortures  ,131, 
133  note,  138-9,  144-5,  178,  217,  &c.;  also  Mather's  Magnalia. 
Book  VII.,  Appendix,  Articles  I.  to  XX\TII.  (especially  the 
torture  of  John  Diamond,  described  in  Article  XVI).  See,  also, 
Penhallow's  History  of  the  Wars,  &c.,  1726;  Hubbard's  Xarra- 
tive  of  the  Troubles  with  the  Indians,  1677  ;  S.  G.  Drake's  Book 
of  the  Indians,  and  his  History  of  the  F'rench  and  Indian  War; 
with  other  similar  works.] 


CORRECTIONS   AND   EXPLANATIONS. 


The  reader  will,  no  doubt,  have  noticed  numerous  bracketed 
paragraphs  throughout  the  book.  These  are  of  course  subsid- 
iary and  explanatory,  and  are  intended  to  serve  instead  of 
foot-notes.  This  should  be  borne  in  mind,  in  order  not  to  miss 
the  proper  connection  of  the  genealogy.  I-'or  example,  on  jjage 
62,  I2th  line  from  top;  "Thkik  Children"  refers  back, /^/.v/* 
the  bracketed  e.xplanation,  and  denotes  the  children  of  Samuel 
and  Elizabeth  Neale  mentioned  at  bottom  of  page  61.  So  in 
other  instances. 

V.  18,  4th  and  7th  hues  from  top;  for  the  sake  of  uniformity, 
"  Piper  Genealogy  "  should  be  "Piper  Family." 

P.  19,  i8th  line  from  bottom  ;  omit  "  d." 

P.  19,  13th  line  ;  "  Mary"  should  be  in  full-faced  type. 

P.  19,  loth  Ime,  read  "Mary  II.  (m.  Albert  Roberts; 
children — Susie  and  l'"red  L.'') 

P.  19,  7th  and  8th  lines  from  bottom  ;  read  "  married 
Susannah  Shorey  of  Wolfeboro',  \.  II.,  a  daughter  of  John 
Shorey,"  etc.     (see  p.  41). 

P.  19,4th  line  from  bottom;  "  Xancy  "  should  be  in  small 
capitals,  and  the  names  of  her  12  children,  in  full-faced  type. 

P.  24;  between  "Shillaber"  and  "Abel,"  insert  "William, 
b.  Sept.  29,  1806."  Name  accidentally  omitted  from  list  of 
Robert  Jr.'s  children. 

P.  41,  15th  and  i6th  lines  from  bottom.  Recent  reliable 
information  makes  it  clear  that  John  and  Mary  (Piper)  .Shorey 
had  at  least  five  children,  the  thiid  daughter,  .Susannah,  marry- 
ing Morgan  Lewis,  Jr.,  antl  settling  in  Alficd.  Me.,  while  Mary 
married  another  man.     (See  also  p.  19.) 

P.  47  ;  among  the  children  of  Joshua  X.  Pii'i:i<,  between 
Annie  Maria  and  Ella  F.,  insert  Aurilla,  A,,  b.  Jan.  20,  1850; 
m.  (i)  J.  \V.  Adams,  1880.  (2)  J.  II.  Jaques,  1897. 

P.  49  ;  at  top,  "Israel  Piper"  should  be  in  small  capitals. 


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P.  62,  6th  line  from  top  ;  "  at  least  5  sons."  Of  course,  the 
fifth  was  Samuel,  Jr.,  the  husband  of  Elizabeth,  mentioned  at 
bottom  of  p.  61. 

r.  71,  8th  and  cjih  lines  from  bottom;  "  J^elknap  says," 
more  accurately,  "the  editor  of  Belknap,"  etc. 

P.  72,  5th  and  6th  lines  from  bottom,  "  Niel  "  should  be 
"  Neil"  ;  so  on  opposite  page,  and  throughout  the  book.  I  was 
misled  by  certain  peculiarities  of  the  handwriting  of  a 
correspondent. 

P.  ^2,  8th  line  from  bottom  ;  "  Tarleton  "  should  be 
"Fletcher";  9th  line,  "  Bowker  "  should  be  "Barker";  a  few 
lines  above,  "  Mary  (Glidden)"  should  be  "  Sarah  (Glidden)." 

P.  74,  8th  line  from  bottom  ;  the  designation,  "  Walter 
Neal,  the  elder,"  is  quoted  verbatim  from  the  document  referred 
to  a  few  lines  before,  executed  by  Walter,  Enoch,  Joshua  and 
Nathaniel,  and  dated  Jan.  21,  1812.  The  expression  designates 
their  own  father,  and  not  an  earlier  namesake.  This  Walter,  the 
elder,  was  the  son  of  Walter,  and  himself  had  a  son  Walter. 

P.  84,  6th  line  from  top  ;  for  "  a  grandsOn  of  Maturin  ''  read 
"  a  great-grandson,"  etc. 

I  note  that  Barber,  in  his  "  British  P'amily  Names,"  Eondon 
1894,  c»i'i  page  141,  observes,  "  Havlev,  from  Haylei,  a  local 
name,  Eargs,  Scotland."  This  rather  seems  to  point  to  a 
Scottish  origin  of  the  name.  I  will  merely  repeat  here  the  sub- 
stance of  a  previous  remark,  that  "Havlev"  seems  to  me  the 
preferable  spelling  of  the  family  name  ;  and  that  circumstances 
plainly  indicate  its  western  English,  or  possibly  Scottish,  origin. 
(See  further,  on  pp.  8  and  28  of  this  book.) 


INDEX. 


[This  index  incluclcs  the  more  important  instances  of  men- 
tion ot  names  in  the  foreg;oing  pages. 

In  the  numerous  cases  where  several  persons  bear  the  same 
name,  the  real  or  appro.vimate  date  of  birth  has  frequently  been 
appended  as  an  aid  to  identification.  r'or  a  similar  reason  the 
maiden  name  of  a  married  lady  has  usually  been  given,  enclosed 
in  parenthesis.] 


ABBOTT. 

Alice    -M 

Andrew    20 

James   H 19 

John    20 

Lucretia    2U 

Mary   A l-'u 

Nancv    20 

Nanc.v   ( llalt-y ) 19 

Nathaniel    2ii 

Philena    20 

Richard    20 

Susan    20 

William    I'j 

ALLAKD. 

Anne    05 

Betsey    (N'eal) <<\,   ti5 

Klizabelh    (Berry) to 

Henry Ul,    t!5 

Jonathan,    l.st 65 

Jonathan,    2d 65 

Lydia   65 

ALGER,   AUGUR. 

Abhy    33 

Ann 33 

AULKN. 

Annie    V 96 

Asa    ■»! 

Charles    H ''6 

.libenezer    (Rev.) 3S 

John    A 96 

Joseph    X '. 96 

Uvman    'H 

Mary    K.. 96 

Mary    10.,'   2d 90 

Naniy    '15 

Patience  ('.  (Piper) 11 

Samuel    U 96 

Sarah  E 96 

Vienna  E.   (Piper) 41.  9; 

AVERIUU. 

Alexander    20 

Eliza    20 

Joseph    -" 

Joseph.    Jr 20 

Mary  ( Maley) i6.  20 

Nathaniel    -' 

Rachel    -'0 

Richard    20 

Samuel    20 

Susan    20 

William    20 


AYERS. 

James  60,  61,  63 

John    P 96 

Joseph    40 

Levi  W 60,  61 

Marv  (Neal) 6  i,  CI,  63 

Phebe    R 96 

Samuel    T 96 

Susan  W.  (Piper) 40,  t'6 

BARKER. 

Sarah     25 

Sarah,  2d 72.  101 

BARNEY. 
C.  Neal 52,  76 

BARTER. 

Sarah 16.   10 

P.KAX. 

Uhailes     .21 

Hannah    21 

James    21 

UorenzD    21 

Rose    65 

BELCHER. 

John    C 67 

Sarah     (  Kent » 8.' 

i;klkx.\p. 

Jir.my   i  Itcv.   Dr.)..r.,  34,  '.m.  99.  100 

BELLAMY. 

Charles    G 27 

Fannie    (Keane) 27 

John    .27 

'rain.<.Ti    (Haley) 27 

15ENXETT. 

Charles    II 48 

Emma    E.    (PIperl 48 

Emma    J 41t 

John    S •. 4a 

Maurice    4» 

B  LAI  SHELL. 

ChaHcs    10 

Clara    4o 

nana    40 

Jemima  H.  (Piper) 40 

Naniy    OS 

Thomas    67 

William    \V 40 


104 


I  SLAKE. 

Joseph     41) 

Sadie  K.    (I'ipor) vj 

BLODGETT. 

Alice    ri 

Ann    M 43 

Cyrus    R 43 

Edwin  H 4a 

Fran  It    43 

Howard    43 

Isabel     43 

John    P 43 

Josephine     (Piper) 4li 

Milton   43 

Susan     ' 43 

Susan    ( Pii)er) 43 

Thomas    B 43 

Thomas   B.,   2d ; 43 

William    S 43 

BOOTH. 

Anne     (Allard) Gf, 

James   R. 65 

BOUTON. 

Nathaniel    (Rev.   Dr.) 33,   34,  loii 

BREWSTER. 
C.  W 58 

BRUCE. 

Abigail    33 

Ann   33 

BIIRLEY,  BURLEIGH. 

Bradley    27 

Catherine     71 

Elizabeth    27 

Jacob    27 

Joanna    67 

Jonathan    .- .27 

Jonathan    H .27 

Sarah    A 27 

Sarah    (Haley) 27 

Susan     27 

Susannah    (Dearborn) 27 

GATE. 

Edith  D.   (Halev) 25 

Fred   H 2b 

William  H 25 

CHASE. 

Emily    42 

George    W 42 

Martha   42 

Mary     s 42 

Nathaniel    42 

Patty    (Piper) 42 

"William    42 

COPP. 

Adeliza  J 6S,  G9 

Dearborn    27 

Emma    J .6S 

-Jonathan    Hp 

Langdon    27 

Moses 42,  43 

Rebecca   42 

Tristram 42,    43 

William    43 

COTTON. 
Mar>- 63,    64 


CROMWELL. 

Anne    ..52 

Henry    52 

Lucy     S3 

Oliver    52 

CUNNINGHAM. 
A  bbic    M 45 

DAVIS. 

Alice  E.   (Ricker) 12 

Charles  W 23 

George    W 18,    23 

Louisa    (Halev) is,   23 

Ruth     23 

Sarah  S.   (Fernald) 23 

DODGE. 
P^dith    24 

DOE. 
Chief  Justice 93 

DOWNS. 
Lois S3 

DRAKE. 

Annette    L 45 

Lettie  A U 

John   T 4/ 

Samuel   G lOO 

DUGANNE. 

Hiram  C.   (Rev.) 22 

Mary  E.  ( Haley) 22 

DUSTAN. 

Hannah 40,    09 

Maria   49 

EVANS. 

Abigail 32,    33 

Abigail,   2d 32 

Benjamin    33 

Benjamin,   Jr 33 

David .32,  33,  81 

David,    2d 133 

Eleanor    81 

Hannah    41 

Jane    52 

John    32 

John,   2d 81 

Mary    L .25 

Robert    81 

Sarah  41 

William    33 

FAIRBAIRX. 

Book  on  "Crests," 7,  30,  95 

FARMER. 
John 9,  10,  5G,  99 

FORBES. 

A.   27,   28 

Gilbert    28 

Jemima    28 

Philenda    (Hayley) 28 

FOSS. 

Augustus    40 

Fannie    40 

Jane    71 

John   40 

Jeremiah    40 

Mary 40 

Nancy '" 


105 


Nancy    (Piperj in 

Thomas    411 

William    |ij 

FULLKRTOX. 

Abigail    (Piper) ii> 

Augustine     4'i 

Harrison   411 

Jemima    411 

Alarlha    |ii 

William    10 

GARLAND. 

Dorcas 82,    s?, 

Hannah    s:i 

Jataez   82,  SJ 

GOLDTHWAITE. 

Jerome   1 4t) 

Mary  A.  (Lovering) 4(j 

GOODWIN. 

Alice   Jtl 

Kills    91 

Mary 14,     1.'. 

Mary.    2.1 !H 

GORGES. 
FenJinanflo    55 

GOSS. 

Hannah X' 

Ifannali.   2(1 n2 

HACKIOTT. 
Frank    W 57,    .'>'.i 

HAINES. 

Abigail 03,    71,    74 

Samuel    74 

HALE. 
John    1'.    (Hon.; !i3 

HALEY. 

Abbie    I'J 

Abbie    H 2:! 

Abel 24,    25,    lol 

Abel,    Jr 24 

Abel,    3i! 25 

Abel   S 2t 

Abigail    15 

Abner    ];> 

V  Agnes    <' S.; 

Alfred    L V.I 

Alonzo     Ill 

Andrew ID,  12,  1:5,  24,  25 

Andrew,    Jr : 10,   24 

Andrew,    3d 13 

Andrew,    4th 14 

Andrew,   5th 1(),    17 

Andrew,    6th V.i 

Ann    11 

Anna    13 

Anna    (Meeker) 25 

Arodas    i:« 

Benjamin    li> 

Benjamin,   2d 19 

Betsev    (b.    17S5) lU 

Betsey   (b.   1793) is 

Betsey    (Sargent) 1'.' 

Blanche    24 

t'harles     1'.' 

Charles,    2d. 25 

Christina  J.   (Stlmson ) 14 

Clara    IV 


Clara    (Colbar) .-^ 

Corinne   C.    (Pierte) zi 

("ynihia  (Piper) is,  23 

Deborah     13 

Deborah    (Wilson) 13 

Deliverance    13 

Edith   D 25 

Edith    (  Dodge) 24 

Eliza     24 

Eliza    (  W'hicher) 2-J 

Elizabeth    13 

Elizabeth,    2d 13 

Elizabeth,   3d 14,    ,a 

Elizabeth   J 2ti 

Elizabeth    (darken 14,   21 

Elizabeth   iScammon* 13 

Ellen     9 

Elsie IS,   45 

Enoch 15s,    13.    49 

Esther     15 

Esther    (Towns) 15 

Ferdinand    O 19 

I'-ra n k    19 

Frank    ( Rev. ) 23 

Fred    H 24 

1 1 annah    A 19 

Hannah    E 22 

Hannah  E.  (Rev.) 2:{ 

Harriett    M 2« 

Harrison    IH 

Ida       26 

James    la 

James    D 25 

Jesse     15 

John    (b.    abt.    1G40) S 

John  (b.  1712) 13 

John   (b.   1737) 13,   lo 

John  (b.  1777) 15 

John    (b.    abt.    1815) It 

John    (b.    1S20) 24 

John    r>oane 14 

John    Smith IS.    :-2 

John     West 2ti 

John    William   (See   "Hayley"). 

Joseph     H 

Joseph,    2d 15 

Joseph.    Jr I'l 

Joseph,    4th 15 

Jos.i)h   G 19 

.loshua     15 

Joshua    M 22 

Laura  A.   (French) 21 

Leavitt    19 

Levi  T 25 

1-ois   (Rlcker) Ifi.   17.   8(i 

Louisa 18,   23 

Louisa    J 19 

T^ucinda   O.    (Piper) 24,    4i) 

Taicv  (Going) v.t 

Ly.lia     11 

Lvdia,    2d 19 

Lvdia    C 25 

Lydia    F 19 

Margaret   (Whitney) 2S» 

Mary    14 

Marv,    2d 15 

Marv,    3d IH 

Mary,   4th 19 

Mary  (Briar) 13 

Mary   Eleanor 22 

Marv  (Goodwin) 14 

Mary  H.    (Lewis) 101 

Mary     (Jones) H 


106 


Mary    (Leavitt) 11,    IG 

/Mary  L.   (Evan.s) 25 

IMary    I^illian '^^ 

Mary  N.   (Piper) IS.  21 

Mary   (Orme) 26 

Mary    (West) 11 

Mehitable  (Hutchins) ItJ 

Moses    15 

Xancv 1(!,    19 

Nancy,    2d 19 

Nancy,  3d 2i) 

Nancy    (Doane) U 

Nancy    S 24 

Nancv    (Shillaber) 24 

Nathaniel 16,   19 

Nathaniel,     2d 21 

Olive   It) 

Parker    24 

Paul    ^!j 

Peletiah  15 

Polly    19 

Rebecca  (b.  1714) 13 

Rebecca  (Ix  17S8) 15 

Rhoda  J.V(  Hayes) 23 

Richard  (b.  1 7*1) 14.  1«.  17 

Richard,  Jr IG,  19 

Richard.  3d 19 

Richard  (of  N.  H.) H 

Robert 14,    24 

Robert.  Jr 14,  23,  2i 

Russell    ^5 

Ruth 15 

Sally   1^ 

Sally    (AVhitehou.se) 24 

Samuel    1  •■ 

Samuel,   2d 13 

Samuel,  3d lo 

Samuel    Gordon 50,   2o 

Samuel   Kins 26 

Sarah     13 

Sarah.    2d 15 

Sarah.    3d 19 

Sarah    ( Barker) 25 

Shillaber 24,     .01 

Susan    ^-fi 

Susan,    2d 19 

Susanna  15  • 

Susan  P 23 

Susan    (Plummer) 23 

Tamsen    2G 

Thatcher   l'> 

Thos.  (b.  abt.  1(»>).  0,  VK  11.  2.5.  26,  27 

Thomas,   Jr 11.  12,  2i> 

Thomas,    3d 12,    26 

Thomas.    4th 2b 

Thomas  J '-^ 

Timothy     19 

Timothy    A '■^ 

AVilliam   (b.   abt.   1613) 8.  in 

AVilliam   (  b.   17(14) 13 

William  (b.  abt.  17(;5) . . .  .16.  17.  is.  86 

AVilliam   (b.   abt.   1775) H 

AVilliam   (b.  1780) 15 

AVilliam   (b.  1803) 18 

AVilliam     (b.     18i6.     accidentally 
omitted  from  the  list,  i).  25).. 101 

HALT.. 

Albert    C 42 

Caroline    M 43 

F.    D "^^ 

French    42 

Hatevil    'i'S 


Iliiani    42 

John    57 

John    P 43 

Malvina    42 

Marietta    42 

Martha  A 43 

Polly   I  Piper) 12 

Samuel   G 42 

Silas    78 

Su.san    R - 43 

HANAFORD. 

Mary  E.   (Neal) 14,  7),   73,  76 

HANSON. 

Betsey  (AA'alker) 21 

Cyrus  21 

HAA\'LEY. 
Grace   31 

^        HAYES.  y 

Rhoda    J 23    / 

HAYI.EA". 

Alice    AVarde 22 

Anthony    8 

Caroline    S.    (AA^adsworth) 21 

Clarence    Park 21 

Cora    Evelyn 22 

Ernest    H 21 

Eugene   AV 22 

Ferdinand    H 22 

Grace   22 

Herman   AV 22 

John  W.   (Rev.) 21,  22 

I.ieut.    28 

Mabel    R 22 

Philenda    28 

Thomas 12.    26.    70 

AA'illiam    7 

HEALEY. 

Thomas 9,    10 

William    9 

HERSEA'. 

Andrew    I> 6/ 

Charles    H 40 

Elijah    67 

Frank    A 68 

George    AA' 67 

Hannah   (Tibbetts) 67 

Jacob    68 

James    (b.    about   1700) 67 

James    (b.    1774) 67 

Jemima    6f 

.loanna   (Burley) 67 

John    67 

Jonathan   (b.   1746) 67 

Jonathan   (b.   1787) 67 

Levi   T 40 

Mark    40 

Marv    (  Piper) 40 

:Marv    ( AA"iggin) 67 

Minnie  A.   E.    (Neal) 68 

Nabbv 64.  67 

Olivia   ( Mason) 40 

Pollv    67 

Sallv    (Shorey) 6' 

Samuel    W 6/ 

Sarah    H 40 

AVilliam   (b.  abt.  1600) 6/ 

AVilliam  (b.  1777) 6/ 


107 


HODSDON. 

Andrew   J 47 

George    W 4  / 

Xathan  B 47 

Ruth   B.    (Pipeiv 17 

Sarah  C.   B t-7 

HORNK. 

Ichabod    SI 

Judith    (Ricker; 81 

Sarah   SI 

Thomas    81 

Thomas,   Jr 81 

AN'illiam    81 

HOWARD. 

Helen  (Neil) T.i 

James    ,a 

HUBBARD. 

Jean    ,U 

\\'illiain    (Rev.j I'OU 

H  YATT. 

Francis    TO 

Mary    ( Kent ) 6ti 

JOHNSON. 

J.   O V8 

Hannah   K.    (Walker) K 

JONES. 

Kleanor    ^o 

Hannah    82 

Hannah    (Ki.ker) ...HZ 

"William    82 

William,   Ji- .82 

Jl  DKINS. 

Abbie   P 48 

Banfield    I' '....!  .47 

Bertie    D 47 

Celia 48 

Charles    M '..4S 

Daniel,    Jr 47 

Frank  L.  (M.  1). ) js 

Georgie  A.   (Thurslon) 47 

Hattie  N.   (Parrott) 48 

Nellie   .4! 

Sadie    4jj 

Sarah   A.    (Piper) 47 

KENT. 

("arolinc   (Knowltoni i;7 

Klizu     ar, 

Fannie    06 

Hannah    (Spears) nc, 

James    m 

John    (jf; 

Joseph (i4,  (;(i,  <t7 

Joshua    (jC 

Mary    66 

Nancy   (Corey) 6> 

Polly   ( Neal) 66.  !t7 

Sarah   67 

Sewell    6ii 

Theda   (Herrlck); 66 

William    6'i 

AVilllam,    2d 67 

kf:yes. 

Annie  M.  (Piper) 4r 

Will  E 47 

KNIGHT. 

Albert   A 47 

James    A 4(5 


Lena  M.  (Clark) 47 

>/.a'-y  1 :..;.;46 

Piper    47 

Susan  M.   (Piper) .!.!.4(; 

KNOX. 

Abigail    ^^ 

Dorothy   g5 

Mary    55 

Mercy    g^ 

Samuel    g5 

Sarah isU 

Sobriety   §5 

Sylvanus   | 'gs 


LA  PORTE. 


.47 


Orra 


LARRABEE. 

Susan    (Traf  ton) 21 

LEACH. 

Mary    (Haley) 19 

Henrietta    (Traf  ton) 21 

Natlianiol in,   21 

LEAVITT. 

-\nn    41) 

Elizal)cth    72 

Jemima    40 

Jemima  H.  (Piper) 40 

John    S 40 

Martha    40 

Mary    16 

Mary.    2d 77 

Samuel    4(t 

Thomas    77 

Woodliury    40 

LEWIS 

Abbie     M ..IM 

i<:ila    h\    (Pii)en 47 

Hannah   J i;» 

James    S 4" 

John    lit 

Marv    H 19 

Marv    (Shorevi 19.   101 

Morgan 19.  101 

Morgan.   Jr 19,    101 

Susan    ( Haley ) 19 

LITTLE  El  ELD. 

Anna    (Ricker) 84 

no.i,Mn-    84 

LIVINGSTONE. 

Edwin    24 

Eliza    ( Averill ) 20 

John 20 

LOVERING. 

Frank   S.    (M.    D.) 45 

Harriett   M.   (Piper) 46 

Isaac  S 4C 

Jonas   K 45 

Lucy    H 46 

Mary    A 4'i 

Newton    4.1 

Sarah  E.  (Piper) 45 

Susan   S •■■4» 

LrCAS. 

Pcrllia   I.   (Piper) 

H.iirv    

Mabel     

Nancy    


.4.S 
.48 
.48 
.67 


108 


MA  H OX  10 V. 
Mary    1011. mi 40 

MASON. 

John    55 

Martha  W.   (Piper) W 

Nathaniel   40 

Olivia  40 

MATHER. 

"Magnalia"     lOU 

MATTOON. 

Ann 02,   71 

Hubertas    71 

Richard    Vi 

NEAb.    NEALiO. 

Abigail    01 

Abigail,   2d TO 

Abigail,   3d 75 

Abigail    ( Haines ) 74 

Adeliza  J.   (Copp) 08,  69 

Agnes    53 

Agnes    (Bowyer) 53 

Agnes    (Hopkins) 53 

Alice    (Bradlev ) 76 

Alonzo     78 

Andrew    b'A 

Andrew,  2d    53 

Andrew,    3d 69 

Andrew,    4th 70 

Andrew,    5th 75 

Andrew,    6th 75 

Andrew,   7th 76 

Angelina  (Burnal) OS,  69 

Ann   53 

Anna    62 

Ann    (Cromwell ) 52 

Ann  (Mattoon) 02,  74,  77 

Betsey    04 

Betsey,    2d 74 

Betsey,    3d 76 

Charles     76 

Charles   L 6S 

Clement    60 

Comfort   62 

Creighton    73 

Darius     , 75 

David     78 

Deborah    75 

D.     .J 75 

Edith'    (Jackson) 69 

Edward    C 68 

Eliphalet   60 

Eliphalet,    2d 74 

Elisha    John 78 

Elizabeth    53 

Elizabeth.   2d 61.   101 

Elizabeth,   3d 62 

Elizabeth    (Andrews) 52 

Elizabeth    (Preake) 53 

Elizabeth   (Haley) 52,   75 

Elizabeth   (I.acon) 54,  97 

Ella    Jane 69 

Ellen   E.   J 68 

Emilv   (Bradley) 76 

Emma  P 69 

Enoch 73,    74 

Enoch,  Jr 74 

Frances    53 

Prances,  2d 97 

Frances   (Oglander) 53 

Francis    52 

Francis,    Jr 52 


Francis,    3d ,53 

Francis,    ^th 53 

Frank   H «(> 

F.    William 69 

George    53 

Grace    9/ 

Hannah    62 

Hannah,   2d Ki 

Hannah,   3d 04,  65 

Hannah,  4th 75 

1  lannah,  5th (8 

Hannah    (Smith) 75 

Hannah    S VO 

Harriett   Vn 

Henery    97 

Henry    5 J 

Hepsabeth   (Marden) /O 

I.    Newton 69 

I  rene    76 

James 60,    61 

James,    2d 61 

James,   3d 69 

James,  4th 70 

James,  5th 75 

James,   6th 75 

James,   7th 70 

James,   8th 7V 

James  A.   (Rev.) 76 

James  H 08,   09 

Jane    (Evins) 52 

Jeane    02 

Joan     (Hubbard ) 70 

Jeremiah    62 

Jeremiah,  2d 70 

Joan    : 75 

John 52,    73 

John,  2d 52,  54,  78,  96 

.John,     3d 52 

John   (Jr.)   4th 53 

John,  5th 60,  61 

John,    0th ' 61 

John,    7th 01 

John,   Sth 01,  07,  68 

John.    9th 69 

John,  10th 09 

John,    nth 75 

John,     12th 75 

John,    13th 75 

John.    14th 75 

John,    15th    75 

John,   10th 75 

John.  17th 76 

John.  ISth 77 

John,     inth 77 

John.   20th 77,  78 

John    Ij 68 

Jonathan    62 

Joseph   73 

Joseph.    2d 75 

Joseph.  3d Vb 

Joseph,  4th 76 

Joseph    Clav 76 

Joseph    H 68 

Joshua 60,  63,  64 

Joshua,   2d 62,   63 

Joshua,    3d 63 

Joshua,   4th 74 

Joshua,   Sth 74 

Joshua.   6th 74 

Joshua,   7th 78 

Joshua  A OS.  69 

Katherine  75 

Katherine,  2d 7b 


109 


T^ac-on    'J  I 

Lancelot    97 

Lancelot,    2d 9/ 

Leta   B tiy 

Lois  C W 

Lucy    M.    R ea 

Lydia   V6 

Lydia    (Scott) 68 

Margaret    (I>ovett) Bl 

Maria     'ib 

Miirtha   I'b 

Mary     5;J 

Mary,    2d 5a 

Mary,    3d tj  i 

Mary,   4th 62 

Maiy,    5th 63 

Mary,   6th 64 

Mary,   6th 69 

Mary,   7lh TO 

Mary.   Sth .0 

Mary,   9th <5 

Marv,    10th 76 

Mary  A 6S 

Mary  A. ,  2d 69 

Mary    Alice 6S 

Mary    (Ayers) 60 

Mary  (Calton) 53 

Mary  Cheney 77 

Mary  R 76 

Mary  (  Lawes) 52 

Marv  (rjeavill) 77 

Marv  (Tarleton) 60,  (V.i,  61 

Mehitable W,    65 

M.    Etta 69 

Minnie  A.  E BS 

Moses  J  J 77 

Nabby  (Hersey) 'M,  6S 

Nancy    74 

Nancy,  2d 74 

Nancy,  3d 76 

Nancy  (To wle ) 7:!.  74 

Nathaniel    74 

Nathaniel.  2d 74 

Nellie    (Rich) 6S 

Olive  611 

Oliver  74 

Patience    75 

Patty   (Prentice) 7i 

Peggy  69 

Peter  '  M 52 

Polly 61.  66 

Rebecca    75 

Richard    51 

Richard.   2(1 64 

Richard.    3d 69 

Richard.   4th 69 

Richard.    Sth 70 

Richard.   6th 74 

Richard.   7th 76 

Richard    H 68 

Robert 5:? 

Robert.  2d 69,  70 

Robert    (.Jr.).   3d 69,   70 

Rnhamah    62 

Sallv   70 

Sally.  2d 74 

Sally    ( Whidden) 70 

Samuel    52 

Samuel.   2d 52 

Saniu.'l.   3d 5S.  6:>,  61,   6.',   7ii 

Samuel   (Jr.).  4th 5S,  61.   W 

Samuel.   .-,lh 69 

S.'iinu.'l.   Cith ^" 


Samuel    (Jr.).   7lh Ti" 

Samuel,  Sth IS^ 

Samuel,  9tli 75 

Sarah  61 

Sarah,    2d 70 

Sarah    (Furbish ) 77 

S.    Elizabeth 76 

Smith   76 

Smith.  2d 76 

St  ephen    77 

Theodore     A 96 

'I'linmas    51 

'I'linmas,    2d K? 

Tliiimas,   3d 53 

TiKimas.   4th 5» 

Thomas,   .".th 53 

Thoma^--.   6th 60 

Th.-mas.  7th 62 

Thomas    W 68 

Trvphena    (Kelsey) 6S 

Walter  '1;  97 

Walter  (Capt.). ..  ..51.  54.  55.  5(J.  71,  97 

Walter.   3d 53.   54 

Walter.    Uh 97 

Walter  (Capt-.T'd) -MS.  .V/.  .V<.  .Vi 

60.   t?9.   70.    71,    73.   97 

Walter,   6th 61.  62 

Walter,   7th 61,  101 

M'alter.    Sth fi2 

Walter,    nth 73.   74 

AValter   (Jr.).   10th 7:1 

AValter,    lUh 74 

Walter    T 78 

William    53 

William.    2d 5:1 

William.   3d fi'i.   f-3 

William.    4th 6:1 

William,   .".th 70 

William    (Jr.).    6lh <'• 

\Villiam.   7th 73 

Wllli:im.    Sth 74 

William.   9th <5 

MMlliiim.    10th '^ 

Xi:il,.    NIEL. 

AbiK-ail    (llaiius) 63.   71 

Andrew     72 

.\nn    7_2' 

.\nne   72 

Ann   {.Maitiion» 71 

Hartholomi'W     72 

Caroline    L 73 

( "atherine  ( lUirlelgh) 71 

TH-borah   72 

Ebenezer   72 

lOli.nc/.er  H 7? 

Elizabeth     L 73 

Klzabeth  (Leavitt) '<if 

Helen    73 

lleiuy    (M.    D.) 96 

Ilubartus  71.  72 

I  I\d>.'irtus,   .Tr 72 

Jane    (  Philbrick) 71 

J.remiah    71 

J..hn    71 

John.   2d 72 

J.dm    O T£ 

J<din    L 7:* 

.lus.ph   72 

.loshua     71 

l.vdiii    (WlKKln) 71 

.Miirv    rs 

Marv.    2.1...  ..72 


110 


JMary  A.   S 72 

Alary   (Perkins; 71,   72 

Mary    (Smith) 72 

Molly    n 

Pauline    (Raymond; 7o 

Samuel    71 

Samuel,  Jr 71 

Samuel,  3d 71 

Sarah  72 

Sarah  G 73 

Walter  71,  73 

\\'alter,    Jr 72 

fSee     correction     of    snellin^-,     p. 
101.1 

PARKRH. 

Abbie    (Halev)    23 

Elizabeth    24 

John    W 23 

Ralph    S 23 

AVilbur    F 77 

PARROTT. 
Hattie   N 4,S 

PENDERGAST. 

Phebe   A.    (Piper) 4't 

Stephen    4U 

PERKINS. 

Eliza     72 

Mary     71 

Rhoda    A 45 

PIERCE. 

Alma    E 46 

Corinne   O 22 

Enid    M 4fi 

Harold    K 4(j 

Henry  H.    (M.   D.) 77 

Lucy  H.    (Lovering) 46 

Robert    E 46 

Robert  L 4G 

Robert   W 46 

PIKE. 
John  (Rev.) 34.   M),  10:) 

PINKHAAI. 

Charles     40 

John    A 96 

Lucinda    C 40.    % 

Phebe  A 40,  96 

PIPER. 

Abigail    36 

Abigail,    2d 39,   40 

Abigail,   3d 43,   46 

Abigail    (Church) 31 

Abigail   (Evans) .32.  33.  41 

Abbie    M.    (Cunningham) 45 

Abigail    (Wiggin) 49 

Albert    L 47 

Alice    (Darby) 31 

Alice   M.    (Brooks) 48 

Almina    40 

Alonzo     45 

Alonzo    S 47 

Amanda    49 

Amasa     49 

Andrew     40 

Ann    .-. 40 

Anna    36 

Anna     (Chandler ) 36 

Anna    E 45 

Anna    N 45 


Anna    (Young) ay 

Annette  L.    (Drake) 45 

Annie  M 47,   101 

Arvilla    42 

Asa    40 

Asa,    2d 40 

Asa,   3d .5),    96 

Asa   M 45 

Aurilla    A loi 

Avans    4:j,   46 

Benjamin    32,    37 

Benjamin  Y 35,  39,  41 

Bertha    1 48 

ijctsey     39 

Betsey  A 39,  40 

Betsey    (Merrill ) 36 

Burley   40 

Caroline  W 40,  48 

Carrie    A 48 

( 'harles    40 

Charles  F 41 

Charles    Franklin 46 

(  Mara    (Eaton) 48 

Clarissa    49 

Cora    E 45 

Cynthia  l.s,  2:],  49 

Daniel    36 

David    35,  37,  38 

David.  2d 18,  43,  44 

David     E 45 

Dearborn    40 

Dimond     38 

Dolly    (Tibbetts) 40 

Edith    40 

Edwin    D 45 

Edwin    P 45 

Elbridge     40 

Elisha  ■ 31,  50,  96 

E:iisha.    2d 36 

Eliza  J.    (Dehart ) 40 

Eliza   ■«' 45 

Eliza    (Wiggin) 40 

Elizabeth   S 43 

Ella   F 47,   101 

Elmira    40 

I':imira.    2d 49 

Elsie     ( Halev ) 45 

Emily   W 42 

Emma    E 48 

Emma    J 49 

Emorv     49 

Enoch    C 45 

Esther   P 42 

Ethel   M 46 

Etta    A 45 

Eugene   G 49 

Everett   T 45 

Frances    40 

Francis     49 

Frank    P 47 

Fred  L.    (Rev. ) 45 

Gardner    W 49 

George    48 

George  A 48 

George  A..  2d 48 

George    H 49 

George  TA' 49 

Gideon 32.   35.  36.   3( 

Gilman    .39.   40 

Grace    (Hawley) 31 

Greenleaf    C 49 

Guernsey    R 4b 

Hannah    32.    36 


Ill 


Hannah,    iM in 

Hannah,    3d 1 J,   i'j 

Hannah     (Evans) 41 

Hannah     (Goss) 3- 

Hannah    ( Meader) 4u 

Jlannah    (N'eal) i'i.  tit 

Harriett    M J.3.    it; 

I  larrisDU    4u 

Harrv     P lo 

Hailwell    K 4^ 

Herbert    O 4. 

Helen    4" 

Hiram    4J 

Horace 2:t,  :51.  5ii,   71.   !»H 

Honu-e  r^.   (Maj.,1 )!».  itti 

Irene  J.    (Cole) 4r 

I.-^rael    i\).   Vn 

James    3).    4ii 

James.    •><\ 4' 

James.    :jcl 4'.i 

James     W 4'.i 

Jane    4.s 

Jane   (Cate) ol 

Jane    N.    (Routs) 45 

Jemiina     40 

Jemima    H 3  i,    40 

Jemima    (Mersey) 3.».    C. 

.Jennie  M.   (Warriner) 4o 

J.)hn    30 

Juhn  (Adj.) 35,  37.  3S,  3H,  41.  % 

John  (Jr.)  :!d :«».  40 

John,   4th 40 

John    (' 40 

John    F 45 

John    H 40 

John    I. 31.    4.S 

John    1...   2d 48 

John    R 4'i 

Jonas    W 4N 

Jonathan     31 

Jonathan.    2d 31 

Joseph    B 13.   4/ 

.Josephine    42 

Joshua    N 43,  47,  101 

Josiah     3') 

l..aura'    A 4o 

l^avina    4o 

T.ettie  A 47 

Levi   T 40 

T..oring  G 42 

1  X)ui.sa    1:) 

l..iicinda  t' 3  i.  4o,  !w; 

I^uoy    40 

I^ydia    3) 

I..yford 37,   42 

Magnns    2!t 

Margaret     :il 

Maria    (Duslan) 4".t 

:Maria    (Judkins) 47 

Mark  F 4:{    4s 

Marshall    W 45 

.Martha If,'   .Vi 

Martha.     2d '. 40 

Martha    (or   Patty) 42 

Martha    R 4i; 

Martha    AV .-J!).    40 

Martha    ( YounR) 4Y 

Mary    30 

Mary.    2d 30 

Mary.   3d ,37.   41 

Mary.    4th 3X 

Mary,    5th .30    40 

Mary.    Cth 40 


Mar\-   K.   (Mahonev) 4G 

Mary    I.    E 4. 

-Mary   J.    (Coverly) 47 

.Mary  N is.  43,  46 

Molly    ( Edmunds) 3* 

Moses     4S 

Nabby    3S 

Nabb\-,   2d 4"J 

Nancy    3y,   40 

Nancy,    2d 49 

Nancy     (Allen) 4a 

Nanc-y    E 4/ 

Nancy  N 4.V  BK 

Napcleim   B C9.  40 

Noah    (Rev.> 31.   4S 

Nathan    32,   37 

.Nathaniel 31,    4.S,'   H3 

Nathaniel,     Jr 30 

Nathaniel,   3d 31,  32 

Nathaniel,   4ih 32,  37 

Nathaniel,     5th 3i 

Orbit     42 

Orra   ( I^aporte ) ii 

Patience     31 

Patience   C 3),   41 

Paul    W 39,    40 

Phebe 4!> 

Phebe  A 39,  4o 

Phebe   E.    (Young) 49 

Polly   (or  Mary) 42 

Rachel     3i 

Rachel     (Sanborn ) 3C 

Rebecca   (Copp) 42 

Rebecca    ( Mallard ) 40 

Reuben    H 49 

Rhoda   A.    (Perkins) 45 

Richard    40 

Ruth   P 43,   47 

Sadie    E '.  .49 

Sally    -js, 

Sally  H .39    4u 

Sally     (Haley) 44 

Sally   (Tibbetts ) 40 

Samuel    31 

Samuel,   Jr 31 

Samuel,   3d IS,   4.3,   45 

Samuel    A 45 

Samuel    B 40 

Samjiel  G 37,  42,  43 

Samuel    J 40 

Sarah    :w 

Sarah,     2d 30 

Sarah,     3d 'JH 

Sarah   A 43,   47 

Sarah   E 45 

Sa  ra  h    ( Evans ) 41 

Sa  rah    (Leach ) 31 

Solomon    50,   96 

Solomon,    2d 9V 

Stephen     49 

Stephen,    2d 50,    9fi 

Stephen.    3d 49 

Sue  N.   (Roots) 45 

Sukov     42 

Sukey .    2d 9;{ 

Susan    12.  43 

Stisan    M 46 

Susan   S.    (Lovering* 4N 

Susan   AV 39.  40 

Susie     41' 

Susy    37 

Thatcher  W.   (Rev.) 45  ' 

Thomas    31 


112 


Tli(jin;i.s,    ,Jr :a 

Thomas,  3d 32,  33,  34,  37,  48,  SI 

Thomas,   4th 3t,   3i 

Thomas,    5th 35 

Thomas,   6th 37,   3S 

Thomas,   7th 3!i,   40 

Thomas,    Sth 4:i 

Thomas    F 4S 

T.    Jefferson 4'.i 

Timothy 37,   43,   61,   65 

Vienna  E 39,  41 

Walter    E 4S 

AValter  E.,   Jr 4^ 

Walter    1 16 

William    31 

William,    2d 32,   36 

William.   3d 39,   40 

William,    4th -.42 

Willie    48 


Susan 


PLUMMER. 


.23 


PYPER. 


Nathaniel 


QiriNT. 
A.  H.   (Rev.  Dr.)  


.SO.  KH) 


RANKIN. 

Francis    A 4^ 

Francis    H 47 

Henry    1 4 1 

Martha  E.   (Piper) 47 

REMICK. 

Frank   J 4Y 

Samuel    2i 

Sarah  C.   B.   (Hodsdon) 47 

Susan    (Burley) 2i 

RICKER. 

Aaron    S3,    85 

Abbie    !'^ 

Abigail    •'^2 

Abigail    (Carter) So 

Abigail    H i^ 

Abigail    ( Hodgdon) S3 

Adelphia    9:i 

Albert  E.    (Rev.) !« 

Alice    Elizabeth 92 

Alice    (Goodwin) 91 

Alonzo   94 

Anna    ^^ 

Ann  .T.   (Clarke) 9^ 

Benjamin    ^'-i 

Ben,iamin,    2d S2 

Benjamin.    3d 93 

Beilev     82 

Bettv    ^'-i 

Bildad    82 

Bridget    S2 

Charles  F 84.   92 

Cvnthia    9^ 

Daniel    82.   83 

Daniel,   2d 83 

Daniel    (Rev.),   3d S-t. 

David    "4 

Deborah    (Roberts) 83 

Dolly     83 

Dominicus    ^- 

Dominicus.    Jr 92 

Dorcas     82 

Dorcas,    2d 83 

Dorcas   (Garland) 82,  S3 


Doiothy    9.3 

Dorothy    (Knox) 8.5 

Eben   s(j 

JObenezer    sz 

Ebenezer,   2d 94 

E.   H 79,   93,   98 

Eleanor    Ki 

Eleanor,    2d 8S 

Eleanor   (Evans) 81 

Elizabeth    82 

Elizabeth,    2d 82 

Elizabeth  (Garland) 80,  94 

Elizabeth   (Ham) 94 

Elizabeth   (Randall) SS> 

Ephraim    82,    83 

Ephraim,    2d .-...83,   85 

Ephraim    Downs 86 

Ephraim   W.    (Rev.) liS,   94 

P2sther    ( Barnes) 92 

Ezekiel    '8S 

George 79,  81,  82,  85,  91,  97 

George,    Jr 82 

George,    3d 82,    83 

George,    4th 92 

George.    5th 92 

George  S.  (Rev.) 93 

Giles    92 

Giles,   Jr 92 

Hannah    82 

Hannah,    2d 82 

Hannah,   3d 82 

Hannah,   4th 84 

Hannah    (Churchill » 92 

Hannah    ( Dunham ) 92 

Hannah    (Garland) 82 

Hannah   ( Hunt) 82 

Hiram    93 

Isaac    9-1 

James    83 

James.    2d 94 

.lane   (Wormwood) 85 

Jemima    (Busby) 83 

Joanna    94 

Joanna.  2d SM 

Joan   (Tilson) 92 

John 81,   82,   S3 

John,    2d 82 

John.   3d 86 

John.   4th 92 

John.  5th 92 

John.   Gth 92 

John.   7th 92 

John.   Sth 92 

John.   9th 9< 

Jonathan     83 

Joseph    80,  94 

Joseph,   2d 86 

Joseph ,   3d 86 

Joseph.  4th 8(5 

Joseph  (Rev.  Dr.} 9-.>.  9.3.  98 

Joseph.    6'h 93 

Joseph.    7th 93 

Joseph    H 93 

Judith    8\ 

Judith.    2d 82- 

Judith.    3d 92 

L ■■•9^ 

Lemuel    83,   85 

Dels    8b 

Lois,    2d 92 

Lois   (Downs) 83 

Lucretia    94 

Luc V    ( Cromwell) 8S 

T>ucv    ( Wallin.gford) 8i^ 


113 


Lucy  (AVhitten) 93 

Lydia    S2 

Lydia,    2d 82 

Lydia,   3d 92 

Margaret    (Emery) 94 

Maria  V ...94 

Marilla  M iT^h 

Mary   81^ 

Mary,    2d 82 

Marv,    3d S3 

Mary,    4th S3 

Marv,    5th 80 

Mary,    6th 92 

Mary    ( Knox) S5 

Marv    ( Mav ) SO 

Marv    ( Randall ) .S3 

Maturin 79,  SO,  94.  98 

Maturin,   Jr 80,  S2 

Maturin,   3d 82 

Maturin,  4th 82,   83,  84,   92 

Mercv    82 

Merfy,    2d 92 

Mercy   (Knox) 83 

Miriam    S3 

Monroe    91 

Moses   83,  85 

Nancy    93 

Nathaniel    8?.  83 

Nicholas  83,  85 

Noah    80 

Olive   82 

Paul    82,    83 

Phebe    84 

Phebe  C 93 

Phineas  82.  83 

Polly    S3 

Rebecca    L 93 

Reuben   82.  S5 

Reuben,    2d 94 

Reuel    91 

Richard    82.   .«5 

Richard.    2d 93 

Samuel    s-i 

Samuol     2d Sfi 

Samuel.    3d 92 

Samuel.   4th 92 

Sar.ah    St 

Sarah.   2d S'! 

Sarah.    .3d 92 

Sarah.    4th 92 

Sarah.  5'h 92 

Sarah.    Bth 9' 

Sarah.    7th 93 

Sarah    (Keniston) 93 

Sarah    (Storer) 91 

Sarah    (Triokey) 93 

Sobriet V    (Knox) S5 

Solomon   : S3,  85.  91 

Solomon.    Jr 8fi 

Steiihen   83.  91,  92 

Stephen.    2d 86 

Susanna   (T^eig-hton) 85 

S\isan    (Storer) 92 

Tamson    83 

Tamscn     (Riggs) «3 

Thomas    92 

Thomas.    2d 92 

Went  worth    M 

William    92 

^\'illiam.    2d 93 

Willi.Tm.    3d '-'3 

RTDLON. 
G.  T.  (Rev.)    'Families,'  etc 9   75 


ROBERtS. 

Albert    101 

Deborah   s3 

Deborah, .  2d ». ,s3 

Fred    L loi 

John    S3 

Mary   H.    (Lewis) 101 

Susie  101 

ROGERS. 

Jane   (Piper) 4.s 

Nathaniel    48 

ROOTS.  - 

Jane    North 45 

Sue    North 45 

ROSS. 

Joanna    (Ricker) 91 

Jonathan     94 

Jonathan,    Jr 94 

Mary    (Goodwin) 94 

RUGGLES. 

Alicia   94 

Clarissa  J 77 

Emmeline   94 

Francis    D 94 

Gershom    C "7 

Henry    94 

Henry    B 94 

Henry  S 77,  91 

Horace    C 94 

John    (Maj.) 77 

John    L 77 

Julia   B 77 

Julia    P 94 

Louisa    K 94 

Lucia   D 94 

Mabel   L 94 

Marguerite    94 

Mary  C.    (Neal) 77 

Mary    R 94 

Moses    7<' 

Sarah   P 77 

RUNNELLS. 
Moses  T.  (Rev.) 36.  75 

RUST. 

George    H 4S 

Phebe    (Piper) 4s 

Thomas    4S 

SALVAGE. 

J.    D 47 

Nancy  E.   (Piper) 47 

SANBORN. 

r.Ptsev  A.  (Piper) 4'i 

Oliver    40 

SAVAGE. 
James,  "Genealogical  Diet." — 9.  92 

SHOREY. 

Betsey    (Willey) 41 

Lyford    41 

James    » 41 

John   19,  41,  101 

Jc  iseph   41 

Marv   19.  41.  101 

Mary   (Piper) 41.   101 

Mercv    (AVlggin ) U 

Ruth   41 


114 


Sally    41,   G7 

Samuel    41 

Susannah    lOi 

SHUTE. 

Abigail    (Bruce) 33 

Jacob    33 

SMITH. 

Charles   7'! 

Hannah    75 

Joseph    72 

Mary    72 

Mary    (Glidden) 72 

Sarah     (Glidden) 101 

S.    Elizabeth 76 

STANLEY. 

Eliza  (Kent) 66.  R7 

Thomas    06 

STANTON. 

Benjamin    S2 

Benjamin.    Jr 82 

Benjamin,    3d 82 

Eleanor  (Jones) 82 

Eleanor    (Ricker) 82 

Jonathan  Y 82 

Levi  W 82 

STIMSON. 

Christina  J.    (Haley) 14 

John    W 14 

Maude   W 14 

STOCKBRIDGE. 

Hannah   (Piper) 46 

Isaac    A 4(5 

John    P 46 

Reuben    46 

SWETT. 

Huldah    S 66 

John    m 

Joshua    N (i(i 

Mary  A m 

Mehitable    (Neal) 64,    65 

Samuel    64,   6o 

TARLETON. 

Elizabeth    63 

Hannah    63 

John    63 

Mary  63,  64 

Mary,  2d 43,  63,  64 

Mary,    3d 72    101 

Mary    (Cotton) 63 

Richard    63 

Ruth    64 

TIBBETTS. 

Dolly    40 

Hannah    .- 67 

Levi  (M.  D.) 40 

Sally    40 

TOOKER. 

Edmund   C 14 

Maude  W.   (Stlmson). . .  .10,  14,  27,  96 

TRAPTON. 

Abiel    G 21 

Alonzo  (M.   D.) 21 

Benjamin    42 

Betsey  (Haley) 20 


Betsey  (Jewett) 20 

Clark   (M.    D.) 21 

Hannah    21 

I lannah    (Allen) 21 

Henrietta    21 

John    20 

Jonathan   21 

Lizzie   20 

Lorenzo    (M.    D.) ....20 

Lydia  (Lewis) 21 

Olive   20 

Olive,    2d 20 

Samuel    20 

Samuel,   2d 20 

Susan   21 

Susan    (Allen) 21 

Susan    (Halev) 21 

Susie    (Piper) 42 

Theodore   21 

TWOMBLY. 

Elizabeth    85 

]\Iarv     85 

Mar  V    ( Ricker) 81 

Ralph 82 

William 82 

William,    2d 85 

VILAS. 

Aaron    66 

Eliza   66 

Emilv     63 

Pannie    (Kent) 66 

Lucy    65 

Martha    M 66 

Sarah    M 60 

William    F 66 

WADSWORTH. 

Caroline    S 21 

Titus    V 21 

WALKER. 

Abigail   (Piper) 46 

Albert    H 46 

Asa    46 

Betsey   21 

Betsey    (Haley) 21 

Hannah    E 46 

Harriett    M 46 

Horace    46 

John   (Rev.) 21,  46 

Joshua    M 46 

Timothv  B J6 

Timothy,    Jr 33 

William   H 46 

WEBBER. 

Eugene    L 19 

Hannah  J.   (Lewis) 19 

Paul    ly 

Susan    (Abbott) 20 

WENTWORTH. 

Benjamin    82 

Charles   B 6') 

Deborah    (Stevenson) >>2 

Eliza   ( Allard) 6a 

George   65 

Gershom    83 

John    74 

Rose    65 

Sarah    83 

William    (Eld.) 83 


115 


WEST. 

John       11 

Mary     H 

WIGGIN. 

Hazelline    25 

Lydia    71 

Lydia  C.    (Halev) 25 

Mary  11.  67 

Mercy    41 

Paul    42 

Susie    (  Piper) 42 

Thomas    55 

Waller  71 


WIXGATE. 

John    SO 

John,    2(1 80 

Sarah   ( Ricker) 80 

WORMWOOD. 

Ann    85 

Jane    85 

Marv    (  Ricker) 83 

Thomas    .'. 83 

YOX'NG. 

Kllen   K.   J.   (Neal) 68 

George   F 68 


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